Mirko Viroli is Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is an expert in foundations of computer science and programming, object-oriented programming, advanced software development, software engineering and self-adaptive/self-organising pervasive computing systems. He is author of more than 300 papers, of which more than 80 on international journals. His GoogleScholar h-index is 49 with >8500. He is member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Software magazine, and was program chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008 and 2009), and IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems (SASO 2014) conferences.