Lorenzo Bettini is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "Giuseppe Parenti", Università di Firenze, Italy. Previously, he was a researcher in Computer Science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy.

He has a Masters Degree summa cum laude in Computer Science (Università di Firenze) and a PhD in "Logics and Theoretical Computer Science" (Università di Siena).

His research interests cover design, theory, and the implementation of statically typed programming languages and Domain Specific Languages.

He is the project lead of the Eclipse projects EMF Parsley, https://www.eclipse.org/emf-parsley/, and Xsemantics, https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.xsemantics. He is also a committer of the Eclipse projects Xtext, https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/, and SWTBot, https://www.eclipse.org/swtbot/.

He is the author of the two editions of the book "Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend", published by Packt Publishing (2013 and 2016).

He is also the author of about 90 research papers published in international conferences and international journals.