Iacopo Colonnelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Turin, Italy. He is a member of the CINI HPC-KTT National Laboratory, serves on the Technical Committee of the Common Workflow Language (CWL), and is a founding coordinator of the CWL4HPC working group. He earned his Ph.D. in Modeling and Data Science with honors from the University of Turin, where his thesis on novel workflow models for heterogeneous distributed systems received the ITADATA 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. He has co-authored over 40 peer- reviewed publications in national and international journals and conferences, and has contributed to more than 10 funded research projects. He is also the designer and maintainer of the StreamFlow workflow manager (100+ citations, recognized as an emerging technology by the EC Innovation Radar initiative) and has developed several other frameworks and libraries for workflow management and high-performance computing. His research interests include workflow modeling and management in heterogeneous distributed architectures, high-performance computing and I/O, distributed confidential computing, and large-scale data science.