Ciro Cattuto is the Scientific Director of ISI Foundation, a 40-year-old, private, non-profit research institute focusing on complex systems, data science, and their applications to public health and social impact. He is a founder and principal investigator of the SocioPatterns collaboration, an international collaboration on measuring and analyzing human and animal social networks using wearable proximity sensors. He was formerly an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino, an Expert in the Italian Department of Digital Transformation, and a member of the Italian Government’s COVID-19 “data” task force. Dr. Cattuto holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Perugia, Italy, and has worked as a research scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, at the Enrico Fermi Center in Rome, and the Frontier Research System of the RIKEN Institute in Japan. He is an editorial board member of the EPJ Data Science and Scientific Data journals, and he has been an organizer and chair of leading conferences in Computer Science, Network Science, and Complex Systems.