Roberto Di Cosmo (SNS alumnus) is a full professor of Computer Science at University Paris Cité. He is president of the board of trustees and scientific advisory board of the IMDEA Software Institute and chairs the Software chapter of the National Committee for Open Science in France.  He is currently on leave at Inria, where he co-founded and leads Software Heritage, the library of source code dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing all publicly available software source code, in partnership with UNESCO. 

Professor Di Cosmo’s research spans logical systems, functional and parallel programming, and software engineering. A long-time advocate for Free and Open Source Software, he founded the Free Software thematic group of Systematic in 2007, directed the European project Mancoosi to improve package managers for large software collections, and established Irill, a research structure focused on Free and Open-Source Software quality. He also leads the Software college of the French committee for Open Science, working to make software development a fully recognized academic activity.