Dr. Daniela Paolotti is a Research Leader at ISI Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics. The main focus of her work has been on the development, deployment and coordination of a network of web-based platforms for participatory influenza surveillance in Europe called Influenzanet (www.influenzanet.info). In general, she is interested in how the widespread use of mobile and online technology can be leveraged to study health at a population level. More recently, she has co-created the Data Science for Social Impact research area at ISI Foundation to work on applying methodologies from digital epidemiology to study health-related issues for the most vulnerable with a data driven approach.