Piero Baraldi received the MSc and the PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently full professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His main research efforts are currently devoted to the development of methods and techniques for system health monitoring, fault diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance for industrial systems. He is also interested in methodologies for rationally handling the uncertainty and ambiguity in the information. He has been invited keynote lecturer at plenary sessions of three international conferences. He has been functioning as Technical Programme Chair of the 2013 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM-2013), Milano (Italy), 2013, of the ESREL2020PSAM15 Conference, Venice (Italy), 2020, and of the ESREL2023 Conference, Southampton (United Kingdom), 2023. He is associate editor of the ‘Journal of Risk and Reliability’. He has been treasurer of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) from 2014 to 2018 and he is co-chairman of the ESRA Technical Committee on “Prognostics and System Health Management”. He is co-author of 2 books and more than 220 papers on international journals and proceedings of international conferences.