Domenico Laforenza has been the director of the Institute for Informatics and Telematics at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) di Pisa since 1st July 2008. From the same date he has also been head of Registro.it, the register for .it domain names. Technological Director of the CNR from 1981 to the 30th June 2008, he was head of the Calculus Laboratory which works closely with the “Alessandro Faedo” Institute for the Science and Technology of Information of the CNR, constituted in 2002 from the merger between CNUCE-CNR and IEI-CNR. Since 2013 he has been President of the Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa and President of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).