Francesco Di Maio (B.Sc. in Energetic Engineering, 2004, Politecnico di Milano; M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering, 2006, Politecnico di Milano; Double EU-China PhD in Nuclear Engineering, 2010, Politecnico di Milano and Tsinghua University) is Full Professor in Nuclear Power Plants at Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy). His research aims at studying, developing and applying efficient artificial intelligence methods and data mining techniques for addressing a number of open issues relevant for risk and resilience analysis of complex safety-critical systems and infrastructures. In 2009-2010 he has been Research Fellow of the Science and Technology Programme (STFP) in China, financed by the European Commission, hosted by Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). In 2010, he has been appointed as Senior Researcher in City University of Hong Kong. He is an active reviewer for more than 12 scientific international peer-reviewed journals and has been Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performability Engineering (2011-2015). Since 2018, he is Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He is Co-Chair of the Technical Commitee on Nuclear Industry of the European Safety and Reliability Association.