Lorenzo Baraldi is an Associate Professor of Computer Vision and Multimodal AI at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he is part of AImageLab in the "Enzo Ferrari" Department of Engineering. He holds the Full Professor Habilitation (Fascia I) and his research centers on multimodal foundation models and multimodal large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vision-and-language integration, image and video generation, embodied AI, and trustworthy and safe AI. He is an ELLIS Scholar and coordinates the Modena ELLIS Unit, and serves as Principal Investigator of the UNIMORE unit on several major European and national initiatives, including EuroHPC MINERVA, the Horizon Europe project ELLIOT, ELIAS, ELSA, and the ELLE MSCA Doctoral Network. He serves the community as Area Chair at major venues including ECCV, ICCV, and ACM Multimedia, and holds editorial roles at Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) and Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL). He also holds a Vice Director role at DHMoRe, the digital humanities center at UNIMORE, bridging artificial intelligence and cultural heritage research.