Fabrizio Dabbene is a Director of Research at IEIIT CNR, where he is the coordinator of the Information & Systems Engineering Group. He published more than 100 research papers and two books. He served as Associate Editor for Automatica and for the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and he is Senior Editor of the IEEE CSS Letters. He was elected member of the Board of Governors and served as Vice-President for Publications. He is currently chairing the IEEE-CSS Italy Chapter.