Mirco Musolesi is Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He received a PhD in Computer Science from University College London and a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna. He is also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.  He also holds a position as Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna.

He joined UCL in June 2015 as Reader in Data Science and he was promoted to Professor in October 2019. Before joining UCL, he was a Reader in Data Science and Networked Systems (Senior Lecturer until February 2014) at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. From November 2009 to August 2011 he was a Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. Before that, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA, where he was a Fellow of the Institute for Security, Technology and Society, and at the Computer Laboratory (now Department of Computer Science and Technology) at the University of Cambridge.