Dr George Konstantinidis is an Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. His research interests include data management and A.I., data integration, data privacy, the semantic web, and distributed systems. He has been involved in a number of US, EU and UK projects, and has published over 30 articles in international conferences and journals. He is currently the scientific coordinator for the Horizon Europe project UPCAST that is delivering a set of universal tools for data marketplaces.