Chiara Toffanin received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 2013. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pavia and Oxford University (2013-2016) and then Assistant Professor until 2021. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Pavia and Associate of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (Boston, USA). She is the author of 34 journal articles, 40 conference manuscripts, two book chapters, and holds two patents. Her research interests include process identification and modelling, model predictive control and data analysis applied to different industrial and biomedical topics, but also machine learning techniques used to model dynamic systems and the study of the stability properties of neural networks. In 2022 Prof. Toffanin was Guest Editor of the special issue “Recent Advances in Computer Simulation for Diabetes Treatment and Care” (Frontiers in Endocrinology) and she is currently Associate Editor of Clinical Diabetes. She was organizer and chair of the invited session “Glucose Regulation and Biomedical Systems” at the 57th IEEE CDC2018, and she was a recipient of the Best Paper Award for the manuscript “Artificial pancreas under periodic MPC for trajectory tracking: handling circadian variability of insulin sensitivity” at the 18th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization, in 2022.