Francesca Toni is Professor in Computational Logic at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. She is the founder and leader of the CLArg (Computational Logic and Argumentation) research group and of the XAI research Centre at Imperial. Her research interests lie within the broad area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in AI and Explainable AI, and in particular include Argumentation, Argument Mining, Logic-Based Multi-Agent Systems, Non-monotonic/Default/Defeasible Reasoning, Machine Learning. She graduated, summa cum laude, in Computing at the University of Pisa, Italy and received her PhD in Computing from Imperial College London. She has coordinated two EU projects, received funding from EPSRC and the EU, was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Leverhulme Trust, was Technical Director of the ROAD2H EPSRC-funded project and co-Director for the Centres of Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI and in AI for Healthcare and Royal Academy of Engineering/JP Morgan Research Chair on Argumentation-based Interactive Explainable AI (2020-25). She is EurAI fellow, AAAI fellow and a fellow of the BCS, and has been awarded in 2021 an ERC Advanced grant on “Argumentation-based Deep Interactive Explanations”. She has published over 200 papers, co-chaired ICLP2015 (the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming), KR 2018 (the 16th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning), and COMMA 2022 (9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument), was the conference chair for ICLP 2023 and is the conference chair for IJCAI-ECAI 2026. She is in the editorial board of the Argument and Computation journal and associate editor for Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Finally, she is in the Board of Directors for KR Inc. and IJCAI trustee.