Patrizia Grifoni graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She is a senior researcher, she has worked at the National Research Council since 1990. From 1993 to 2000 she is an adjunct professor of "Image Processing" at the University of Macerata. She is professor of "Software Engineering and Object Oriented Programming" at the Uninettuno International Telematic University. She is the author of over 250 articles in journals, books and conferences. She has been scientific director of the CNR for numerous European and national projects.
She leads and participates in numerous national and international research projects. She has experience in organizing numerous international scientific conferences and seminars (RRI-SIS2017, MONET, MIMIC, M2AS, MAPS); she is a member of some program committees of international seminars and conferences and a member of the editorial board of some international journals. Her main research areas of interest are: Social computing, Social computing, Human-machine interaction, Multimodal interaction, Sketch-based interfaces, Multimedia applications, User modeling, Databases and knowledge, Ontologies, Machine learning, Statistical databases, Spatial information , Geographic Information Systems, Responsible Research and Innovation, Ethics, Risk Management, Digital Ecosystems, Web Applications, Web 2.0, Internet of the Future, Social Networks.