Raffaella Bernardi is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.  She works on Computational Linguistics focusing on the interplay between Language and Reasoning as displayed during conversations and/or in
multimodal contexts.

 She is an active member of the international Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), serving as a Senior Chair, Area Chairs of *ACL conferences; she is also an active member of the italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) serving eg. as PC chair, AC, member of the scientific committee of AILC Lectures.

She has recently been the EU representative within the ACL Sponsorship Board. She has also been quite active in disseminating Computational Linguistics by means of teaching
activities. She has long been the local coordinator, at FUB and then at UniTN, of the Erasmus Mundus European Masters Programme in Language and Communication Technologies.

She is an ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Fellow.