Lucia Sacchi is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy. She's got a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics. She is the scientific coordinator of the OHDSI Italian National Node and she has been the President of the Italian Society of Biomedical Informatics (SIBIM) and Chair of the IMIA working group on Data Mining and Big Data Analytics. She is part of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal. Her research interests are related to data mining, with particular focus on temporal data, design and development of clinical decision support systems, and technologies for biomedical data analysis with a specific focus on real world data (RWD).