It is our great pleasure to welcome Professor Roberto Giacobazzi of the University of Verona, Italy as an University of Verona, Italy visiting faculty member.

Prof. Giacobazzi has been appointed to the eminent role of Chair of Excellence by the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of the Community of Madrid.

Roberto is best known for his extensive and foundational work on abstract interpretation: both in the general theory, and in its applications to program semantics, static program analysis, language-based security, digital asset protection, and malware analysis, among other things. Roberto is the author of over 100 publications in international journals and conferences, and serves on the steering committees of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) and the Static Analysis Symposium (SAS).