Claudio Masolo is a researcher at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/) of the Institute of Cognitive Sciencesand Technologies of the Italian National Research Council. His main research interests concern the ontological foundation of knowledgeengineering and conceptual modeling with a particular focus on qualitative representation of space, time, change, and properties aswell as on ontological foundations of cognitive theories. He is one of the main person under the development of the DOLCEontology; co-founder and Membership Officer of the International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA); member of theEditorial Board of the Applied Ontology Journal.
