Fabio Grandi received from the University of Bologna, Italy a Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronics Engineering in 1988 and a PhD in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science in 1994. From 1989 to 2012, he worked at the CSITE center of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bologna in the field of neural networks and temporal databases, initially supported by a CNR fellowship. In 1993 and 1994, he was an Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Ferrara, Italy, and Bologna. In 1994, he was appointed as a Research Associate at the University of Bologna. Since 1998, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, and he is currently in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Fabio Grandi published more than 100 papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, is a member of the TSQL2 Language Design Committee, and is co-author of the “The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language” book. His scientific interests include temporal, evolution and versioning aspects in data management, WWW and Semantic Web, knowledge representation, storage structures, and access cost models.