Massimo Ferri is a Professore dell'Alma Mater (Honorary Professor) at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. He possess expertise in teaching, research, university teaching, publishing, science and 11 more skills. He is proficient in German, French and English. Colleagues describe him as "Massimo is simply one of the best people I have ever met, he changed my life in a better way, hopefully I did the same for him." and "Massimo is one of the pioneers in computational topology and works at the use of topology and geometry since 1988. I highly can recommend Massimo as he is both a brilliant mathematician and an excellent speaker and makes mathematics both useful and useable for computational scientists. "