Tullio Vardanega is at the University of Padua, Italy, since January 2002. He holds an MSc from the University of Pisa, IT (1986), and a PhD from the Technical University of Delft, NL (1998). After working as PI in a software consultancy firm in Pisa, from 1987 until mid-1991, he was with the European Space Research and Technology Center in the Netherlands for a decade, until the end of 2001, investigating methods, tools and runtimes for the development and execution of on-board software. At the University of Padua, he lectures and studies high-integrity real-time systems, Cloud and Edge computing, software engineering methods, active learning methods, and computing education. He has run numerous research projects in the areas of his research interests on funding from international and national organizations. He has been a member of IEEE and ACM for many years. He is the Italian representative in technical expert groups of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22: WG9 (Ada) and WG23 (Programming Language Vulnerabilities). Since 2004, he is the chair of Ada-Europe, a Europe-based not-for-profit organization that promotes the use and the knowledge of Ada in academic and research establishments.