Giovanni Aloisio is Emeritus professor of Information Processing Systems at the Dept. of Innovation Engineering of the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. He is part of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) Advisory Board. He is former Director of the CMCC Supercomputing Center) and of the CMCC “Advanced Scientific Computing” (ASC) Division). His expertise concerns high performance computing, grid & cloud computing, distributed data management and Machine Learning. He has been involved in several EU projects so far. He has also contributed to the IESP (International Exascale Software Project) exascale roadmap. He has been the chair of the European panel of experts on WCES that contributed to the PRACE strategic document “The Scientific Case for HPC in Europe 2015-2020”. He was a member of the ENES (European Network for Earth System modelling) HPC Task Force and of both NEMO and SHYFEM Steering Committees. He is the author of more than 150 papers in refereed journals on high performance computing, grid & cloud computing, distributed data management and machine learning. He is currently working on Quantum Computing for Climate Change applications.