Aldo Gangemi is a full professor at the University of Bologna, and Director of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council, where he co-founded the Semantic Technology Lab (STLab) in 2008. His research focuses on semantic technologies as integrations of methods from knowledge engineering, the semantic web, linked data, cognitive science, and natural language processing. His theoretical interests concentrate upon the representation and discovery of knowledge patterns across data, ontologies, natural language, and cognition, using hybrid symbolic/sub-symbolic methods. Applications domains include cultural heritage, robotics, medicine, law, e-government, agriculture and fishery, and business. He has published more than 250 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books (scholar H-index=60); and sits as an EiC or EB member of international journals (Semantic Web, Web Semantics, Applied Ontology), has been a conference chair (EKAW2008, WWW2015, ESWC2018/9), has coordinated research teams in eight EU projects, and is the scientific coordinator of the H2020 SPICE project. He is a member of the Board of Directors at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.