Manuel Mazzara received a Ph.D. degree in Computing Science from the University of Bologna, Italy. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering and the Head of the International Cooperation Office at Innopolis University, Russia. Manuel has a research background in software engineering, service-oriented architecture, concurrency theory, formal methods, and software verification. He has published many relevant and highly cited papers, in particular in the field of service engineering and software architectures. He has collaborated with European and U.S. industries and governmental and inter-governmental organizations, such as the United Nations, always at the edge between science and software production. The work conducted by him and his team in recent years focuses on the development of theories, methods, tools, and programs covering the two major aspects of software engineering, such as the process side, related to how we develop software; and the product side.