Francesco M. Donini is a full professor at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. He started his research in 1988 on Knowledge Representation, the computational aspects of automated reasoning, and symbolic Artificial Intelligence in general. He moved in around 2000 to research on symbolic Image Analysis and Electronic Commerce and Matchmaking. More recently, he has investigated reasoning aspects of Semantic Web, Recommendation, and eXplainable AI.