Paolo Bellavista is Full Professor of Distributed and Mobile Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) of the University of Bologna. His research group focuses on software infrastructures for challenging environments in terms of latency and/or scale requirements, such as industrial plants, cloud continuum, vehicular applications, and smart cities. He has coordinated and participated in several EU and national projects on digital twins (e.g., https://www.iotwins.eu/).