Paolo obtained his PhD from the University of Bologna in 2002 and has been an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering since 2015. He has published over 150 refereed papers in diverse areas of artificial intelligence including multi-agent systems, computational logic, and natural language processing, with a special focus in argumentation mining. He has leading roles in several national and international research projects and scientific enterprises. In 2018 he was awarded the national scientific qualification as full professor. He is a Visiting Fellow of the European University Institute and the Director of the University of Bologna’s International Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence.