Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo received her Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1999. After spending two years at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) and 5 years in the UK as a lecturer, she became a full professor at the Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva in 2010. From 2016 to 2024, she was the Director of the Computer Science Center of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She was nominated in 2018 among the 100 digital shapers in Switzerland. Her research interests relate to Distributed AI, more particularly engineering of decentralized multi-agent systems with self-organizing and emergent behavior. This involves studying natural systems, designing and developing artificial collective systems, and verifying the reliability and trustworthiness of those systems. Recently she extended her ressearch interest to Semantic AI and how to combine it with software agents and digital twins. Application domains include energy, urban planning, and GLAMs. She co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems (SASO) and the ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems (TAAS), for which she served as EiC from 2005 to 2011.