Dino Pedreschi is professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (1989/90), at CWI Amsterdam (1993) and at UCLA (1995).Pedreschi’s current research interests are in data mining and logic in databases, and particularly in data analysis, in spatio-temporal data mining, and in privacy-preserving data mining. He is a member of the program committee of the main international conferences on data mining and knowledge discovery and an associate editor of the journal Knowledge and Information Systems.