Fabio Palomba is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He received the European PhD degree in Management & Information Technology from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2017. His PhD Thesis was the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Best PhD Thesis Award (Italy section). His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, empirical software engineering, source code quality, and mining software repositories. He was the recipient of two ACM/SIGSOFT and one IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Awards at ASE'13, ICSE'15, and ICSME'17, respectively, and Best Paper Awards at CSCW'18 and SANER'18. He serves and has served as a program committee member of various international conferences (e.g., MSR, ICPC, ICSME), and as referee for various international journals (e.g., TSE, EMSE, JSS) in the field of software engineering. Since 2016 he is Review Board Member of EMSE and, since 2019, Editorial Board Member of JSS. He was the recipient of five Distinguished/Outstanding Reviewer Awards for his reviewing activities conducted for EMSE, IST, and JSS between 2015 and 2019.