Luca Aceto has been a professor of computer science at the GSSI since September 2017. Before joining the GSSI, he was a full professor at Reykjavik University (2004-to date), an associate professor at Aalborg University (1996-2006) and a lecturer at the University of Sussex (1992-1996). He is an elected member of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea and a member of the Icelandic Academy of Sciences. He also serves as the chair of the editorial board of LIPIcs, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, and is a member of the Executive Board of the journal Logical Methods in Computer Science, of the Advisory Board of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, and of the editorial boards of Acta Cybernetica, Acta Informatica, the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming and of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. He was the president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in the period July 2012-July 2016. He was the founder and first chair of IFIP WG 1.8 on Concurrency Theory, and co-founded and co-directed the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science since 2005.