Samuel Fiorini is a Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), in the Mathematics Department. After completing his PhD, he spent one year as a postdoc with Michel Goemans and Andreas Schulz at MIT, and another year in Montreal, at GERAD and McGill University. He received a STOC'12 best paper award for his work on lower bounds on extended formulations, jointly with Serge Massar, Sebastian Pokutta, Hans Raj Tiwary and Ronald De Wolf. He is also the recipient of an ERC grant from the European Community (2014 - 2019).