Tom Lenaerts is Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he is co-heading the Machine Learning Group. He is currently the ULB director of the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels and vice-president of the ULB Computer Science Department. He holds also a partial affiliation as Associate Professor with the Artificial intelligence lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and he is board member of the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (bnvki.org). He has worked in a variety of interdisciplinary domains and has co-authored many internationally published papers in AI, machine learning, optimisation, collective intelligence, computational biology and bioinformatics, aiming to answer theoretical and practical questions within computer, social, biological and medical sciences.