Paolo Bellavista received his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is now a full professor of distributed and mobile systems. His research activities span from pervasive wireless computing to location/context-aware services, from edge cloud computing to middleware for Industry 4.0 applications. He has been the scientific coordinator of a large H2020 big data innovation action called IoTwins (delivers distributed digital twins for the manufacturing industry). He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Elsevier Pervasive Mobile Computing, and the Elsevier Journal of Network and Computing Applications, among the others.