Prof. Nicola Tonellotto (male) is associate professor at the Information Engineering Department of the University of Pisa since 2019 and honorary research fellow in the College of Science & Engineering of the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow since 2020. From 2002 to 2019 he was researcher at the Information Science and Technologies Institute A. Faedo of the National Research Council of Italy. His main research interests include Cloud Computing, Web Search, and Information Retrieval, with a particular focus on efficient data processing in distributed computing architectures. He co-authored more than 100 papers on these topics in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. He is co-recipient of the ACM SIGIR 2015 Best Paper Award and the ACM SIGIR 2023 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention.