Vincenzo Manca is a mathematician who received his education at the University of Pisa. He has taught at the universities of Udine, Pisa, Limerick, and Verona, where he holds an honorary professorship and served as a full professor of Computer Science from 2002 to 2019. His research interests include Mathematical Logic, Formal Languages, Information Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, and Bioinformatics. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications and 20 books. At the University of Verona, he chaired the Center for Computational Biomedicine and the Museum of the History of Computing. In 2006, he founded the degree program in Bioinformatics, and in 2016 he founded the Master's degree program in Medical Bioinformatics.