Professional activities
I am area editor for the Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge and I was area editor for the Journal of Web Semantics.
I am General Chair for the 25th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2026). I served as Programme Co-Chair for the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), Research Track and for the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), Resource Track.
I am the co-chair of the Turing Interest Group on Knowledge GraphsTuring Interest Group on Knowledge Graphs.
I am External Examiner for various PG courses at Heriot Watt University and Lincoln University, while I was external examiner for PGT courses at Manchester University during the period 2015 - 2019.
Conference Roles
- Research Track Programme Chair at 19th International Semantic Web Conference (Athens, Greece, 2020)
- Panel Discussion: How much semantics goes how long a way? at 18th International Semantic Web Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Auckland, NZ, 2019)
- Doctoral Consortium at 18th International Semantic Web Conference, by Invitation (Auckland, NZ, 2019)
- Doctoral Consortium at 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Nancy, France, 2018)
- Resources Track at 16th International Semantic Web Conference (Vienna, Austria, 2017 - 2019)
Editorships
- Journal of Web Semantics (Area editor, 2019 - present)
Examination Roles
- University of Manchester, External examiner for various PGT units / courses (2018 - 2019)
- Universita degli Studi di Trento, PhD (2014)
- University of Manchester, UK, MSc (PGT, 2014)
Media Appearances
- Computer Science research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, ontologies and knowledge sharing.
Organisations I have been associated with
- University of Liverpool (2005 - present)