Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Paolo Ceravolo is member of the SEcure Service-oriented Architectures Research Lab at Milan State University. His research fields include Data Representation and Integration, Business Process Monitoring, Empirical Software Engineering, Social Interaction Metrics and Innovation Management. Ceravolo co-founded Inpolitix, a web platform for creating and managing political sites. He participated in the Smart Bear research project, a platform enabling the collection of data on the lives of the elderly. In 2002, he received a Master’s degree in Basic Information and Communication Methodologies for the Humanities, and in 2001 he graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan.