Diletta Martinelli is an algebraic geometer who specialises in birational geometry and the minimal model program, focusing on their connections to Bridgeland stability conditions. She received her PhD from Imperial College London in 2016 and she has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow and at MSRI in Berkeley in 2019. She joined the University of Amsterdam as an assistant professor in 2019. Martinelli is one of the leading figures in Europe in research capacity building projects in the Global South, and involved in numerous initiatives and networks. She is the Vice Chair of the Committee for Developing Countries of the EMS, on the board of the Mathematics in Africa Research and Mobility (MARM) program of the LMS, she is a CIMPA Scientific Officer and coordinator of a dedicated working group of the Italian Mathematical Union. At the University of Amsterdam she is the coordinator of academic collaborations with the Global South for the Faculty of Science.