Short bio:

Valentina Presutti is a researcher and the Coordinator of the Semantic Technology Laboratory of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science in 2006 from the University of Bologna (Italy). She has led several national as well as European research projects addressing diverse domains such as Assistive Robotics, Cultural Heritage, Cybersecurity, eGovernement, Scholarly Data. She has +100 publications in international journals and conferences in the area of Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Extraction, and Artificial Intelligence. She is member of the editorial board of high impact international journals such as Journal of Web Semantics, Intelligenza Artificiale, JASIST and Data Intelligence journal. She is co-Director of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School.

My best professional achievement:

Research-wise: the creation of a catalogue of ontology design patterns and a set of methods for pattern-based ontology engineering has led to a new design paradigm for ontologies, linked data and knowledge graphs. Teaching-wise: shaping the future generation of Semantic Web-related researchers by bringing every year (as co-Director) the most promising 60 students and most prominent 18 researchers of the field at the International Semantic Web Research Summer School in Bertinoro.