Barbara Catania, University of Genova, Italy (she/her) 

Barbara Catania is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System Engineering of the University of Genova, Italy, where she co-heads the Database and Information System Group. She is the head of the Master of Science and the Bachelor degrees in Computer Science at the University of Genova. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Milan, Italy. She graduated from the University of Genova with a degree in Information Sciences. 
Her main research interests concern advanced data management and analysis, explicitly referring to models, languages, centralised and large-scale architectures, data integration, query optimisation, stored and streaming data, geo-referenced data, semantic data, and ethical data management and analysis aspects. She has participated in numerous scientific and industrial research projects on these topics. 
She is a National Inter-university Consortium for Informatics (CINI) Big Data Research Lab member. She promotes gender equality, diversity, and inclusion (DEI) in education and research. She is an ADBIS DEI officer representing the ADBIS endowment in the inter-conference initiative DEI databases.