Diego Calvanese is an associate professor at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on theory of computing, formal languages, knowledge bases and databases, and ontologies. His research interests include formalismsfor knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology languages, description logics, Semantic Web, conceptual data modeling, data integration, semistructured data management, and service modeling and synthesis. He isactively involved in several national and international research projects in the above areas, and he is the author of more than 200 refereed publications, including ones in the most prestigious international journals and conferences in Databases and Artificial Intelligence. He is one of the editors of the Description Logic Handbook. He is regularly invited to serve on the Program Committees of international conferences in the above mentioned areas and is a member of the editorial board of JAIR.
