Daniela Cocchi is Professoressa Alma Mater at the University of Bologna and collaborates with the Department of Statistical Sciences. She was previously the President of the Italian Statistical Society and the International Environmetrics Society and a principal investigator of several environment-related projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research. She is also Co-Editor in Chief of the Environmental and Ecological Statistics journal. She specialises in Bayesian spatial modelling, diversity measures, survey sampling, and applications to environmental and epidemiological data.