Tullio Vardanega is at the University of Padua, Italy, since January 2002. He holds an MSc from the University of Pisa, IT (1986), and a PhD from the Technical University of Delft, NL (1998). After working as principal investigator at a software consultancy firm in Pisa, from 1987 until mid-1991, he was with the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands until December 2001, investigating methods, tools and runtimes for the development and execution of on-board software. At the University of Padua, he lectures on high-integrity real-time systems, Cloud and Edge computing, software engineering methods, active learning methods, and informatics education. He has run numerous collaborative projects in those research areas on funding from international and national bodies. He has been a member of IEEE and ACM for many years. He is the Italian representative in technical expert groups of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22: WG9 (Ada) and WG23 (Programming Language Vulnerabilities). Since 2004, he is the chair of Ada-Europe, a not-for-profit organization that promotes the use and the knowledge of Ada in academic and research establishments.