Maria Fazio is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Messina (Italy). She has been involved in several national and international research projects in the field of distributed computing and services. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals and has been Guest Editor of several Special Issues published in international journals. She was chair and organizer of international conferences and workshops. She has been responsible for the CINI “HPC: Key Technologies and Tools” (HPC-KTT) National Laboratory and vice-chair of the Master’s Degree international course in Data Science at the University of Messina. She is the author of more than 200 papers in the field of distributed systems and computing technologies. Her research interests include the Compute Continuum, AI models for service management, auto-configuration of distributed systems and security in IoT-Edge ecosystems. She has been a co-founder of Alma Digit, which is an SME and academic Spin-Off at the University of Messina aimed at implementing automation of processes in the Cloud.