Fernando Ferri has been the director of research on the National Research Council of Italy since 2001. He was a researcher from 1990 to 2001. He was a contract professor from 1993 to 2000 of “Sistemi di Elaborazione” at the University of Macerata. He is the author of more than 300 papers in international journals, books and conferences. He received a degree in electronic engineering in 1990, and a Ph.D. in medical informatics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1993. He has coordinated and participated in several national and international research projects. He has organized several international events (scientific conferences and workshops). His main research areas of interest are social informatics, social computing, responsible research and innovation acceptance, addiction, social media and social networks, e-learning, digital ecosystems, ontologies, machine learning, statistical databases, geographic information systems, data and knowledge bases, human–machine interactions, user–machine natural interactions, user modelling, visual interactions, sketch-based interfaces, geographic information systems, risk management, and medical informatics.