Alina Sîrbu is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her research is on complex systems modelling, data science and machine learning, applied to biomedical, social and technical systems. She obtained her PhD in 2011 from Dublin City University, Ireland, with a thesis in Computational Biology. Afterwards, she held postdoctoral research positions at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin (Italy) and at the University of Bologna (Italy). She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University Shanghai (2014) and New York University Abu Dhabi (2017). She has been involved in several interdisciplinary National and European projects, and is currently national coordinator of the MEDICA PRIN 2022 project (2023-2025), and local coordinator of the HumMingBird H2020 European project (2019-2023) and of the ALMONDO PRIN 2022 PNRR project (2023-2025).