Massimo Leone is Professor of Philosophy of Communication and Semiotics at the University of Turin, Italy, and Director of the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento. He is also Part-Time Professor of Semiotics at Shanghai University, an Associate Member of Cambridge Digital Humanities, and Adjunct Professor at Andrés Bello Catholic University, Caracas. He was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project FACETS and the ERC Proof of Concept project EUFACETS. His research focuses on semiotics, visual culture, religion, digital communication, and artificial intelligence.