Roberto Casadei is Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna. He got a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, in 2020, with a thesis on "Engineering Self-Adaptive Collective Processes for Cyber-Physical Ecosystems". His research activities revolve around the themes of programming languages, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. His focus is currently on Aggregate Computing, a paradigm for programming collective adaptive systems by a global perspective. He leads the development of ScaFi (an aggregate programming toolkit for Scala).