Fabio Caraffini is currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science at De Montfort University (UK). He received the BSc in “Electronics Engineering” and the MSc in “Telecommunications Engineering” degrees from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2008 and 2011 respectively. Fabio holds a PhD in Computer Science (De Montfort University, UK, 2014) and a PhD in Computational Mathematics (University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2016). His research interests include theoretical and applied computational intelligence with a strong emphasis on metaheuristics for optimisation.