After teaching for almost a decade at 
Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Roberto Di Cosmo became full professor in Computer Science at 
University Paris Cité. He is currently on leave at 
Inria to lead the 
Software Heritage project.
His research interests span a wide spectrum from foundational aspects of logical systems to functional programming, parallel and distributed programming. He created and directed the european reseach project 
Mancoosi to improve the quality of large collections of software quality, and is investigating now the scientific problems posed by the general adoption of Free Software, with a particular focus on static analysis of large software collections.
A long term Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998, he has created the 
Free Software thematic group of 
Systematic in October 2007, which has helped fund over 40 research and development projects, and he is now director of 
IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality.