Patrizio Pelliccione (male) is a Full Professor at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg. He got his PhD in 2005 at the University of L’Aquila (Italy) and from February 1, 2014 he is Docent in Software Engineering, title given by the University of Gothenburg. His research topics are mainly in software engineering, software architecture modeling and verification, autonomous systems, and formal methods. He has co-authored more than 150 publications in journals and international conferences and workshops on these topics. He has been on the organization and program committees for several top conferences and he is a reviewer for top journals in the software engineering domain. He is very active in European and National projects. In his research activity he has collaborated with several industries such as Volvo Cars, Volvo AB, Ericsson, Jeppesen, Axis communication, Systemite AB, Thales Italia, Selex Marconi telecommunications, Siemens, Saab, TERMA, etc. More information is available at http://www.patriziopelliccione.com.