Diego Calvanese received a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome in 1996.  He is the author of more than 350 refereed publications, including ones in the most prestigious international journals and conferences in Artificial Intelligence and Databases, with more than 33000 citations and an h-index of 72, according to Google Scholar. He has served in over 150 program committee roles for international events, and is/has an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence and of JAIR.  In 2012-2013 he has been a visiting researcher at TU Vienna as Pauli Fellow of the "Wolfgang Pauli Institute".  He has been the program chair of PODS 2015 and KR 2020 and the general chair of ESSLLI 2016. He has been nominated EurAI Fellow in 2015 and ACM Fellow in 2019.