The ALICE experiment: Recent highlights and future perspectives.

ALICE is the experiment originally designed to study the physics of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. In its first decade of activity, ALICE turned out to be an excellent experiment to study strongly interacting matter formed not only in nucleus-nucleus collisions, but also in proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. In this overview, a selection of recent results obtained by the ALICE Collaboration will be presented, together with the expectations for the next LHC runs after the major upgrade carried out since the end of the LHC Run 2 in 2018.