Giulio Rossetti is a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTI) and an external professor at the Computer Science dept. of the University of Pisa. He is a member of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, for which he coordinates the research activities on Complex Network Analysis. Giulio’s research focuses on modeling, characterizing, and forecasting emerging (social) behaviors leveraging complex networks and AI/ML techniques.

Valentina Pansanella was born in 1995 in Perugia, Italy. She is currently a researcher at ISTI-CNR, Pisa, on the SoBigData.it project, with a past position at UNIPI in the ALMONDO project. In January 2024, she got her PhD in Data Science at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) with a thesis on social networking platforms' dynamics and the definition of models and analytical methods to study opinion diffusion. Currently, her main research concerns the study and development of opinion diffusion models and, more broadly, on the societal impact of social and mass media.