Davide Ancona (PhD in Computer Science, University of Pisa, 1998) is Associate Professor at the University of Genova. His main research interests include type systems, object-oriented programming, coinduction methods for programming languages, modules and components, software reuse and maintenance, multi-agent systems, and behavioral types. He is author of more than 150 publications. He is the president of the executive board of AITO, Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (since Jan 2024, previously secretary since Jan 2013, and vice-president since Jan 2012), and member of the editorial board of the ACM/SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (ACR), Scientific Programming (Hindawi), and Open Computer Science. He has been guest editor of special issues of Science of Computer Programming and Journal of Object Technology. In 2009 he received, together with G. Lagorio, the best paper prize at ECOOP. He has participated to several national and European projects and has been PC member of several workshops and conferences including DLS, ECOOP, ESOP, OOPSLA, and RV. He has been involved in the organization of several scientific events: organizing chair of ECOOP 2009, program chair of DLS 2017, general chair of 2019 program co-chair of FTfJP06 and of OOPS special track at SAC from 2004 through 2017, co-chair of CILC 2015. He has co-chaired all the editions of the VORTEX workshop since 2016.