After gaining his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Exeter in 2007, specialising in Theoretical Dynamical Systems with Singularities, Marcello Trovati accepted a position at the newly created Dublin IBM Research Lab to carry out research mainly in the field of Knowledge Discovery, Text Mining, and Mathematical Modelling. He was involved in a number of research projects in collaboration with other IBM Research Centres and academic institutions He then joined Coventry University to take up a position as Teaching Fellow, before, subsequently, joining the University of Derby as a Lecturer, during which he was involved in various multi-disciplinary projects focussing on Mathematical Modelling, Algorithm Design, and Big Data Analytics. In 2016, Marcello joined the Computer Science Department at Edge Hill University as a Senior Lecturer and he was subsequently awarded a Professorship in Computer Science. He is involved in several research themes and projects. Marcello’s main interests include: Mathematical Modelling, Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Network Theory, Machine Learning, Data and Text Mining.