Horacio Saggion is chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Information & Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. He was appointed by UPF in 2010 as a Ramón y Cajal research fellow and he was promoted to full professor in 2021. Horacio is currently director of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab of the TALN Natural Language Processing Group where he works in several areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) automatic text summarization, text simplification, NLP for Sign Languages, information extraction, figurative language, sentiment analysis and related topics. His work combines symbolic and machine learning techniques. Since his arrival he has obtained funding to carry out his research from different national and international organizations such as Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, and the European Commission. He also collaborates with the industry through contracts, projects and Doctoral PhDs. Horacio is the project coordinator of the recently Horizon Europe funded project iDEM (Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation - #101132431).