Memberships | Awards | International Collaborations | Visiting Exp. | Academic Appointments
Essentials
- [Oct 2018-today] Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2007-2018] Assistant Professor/Full Researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2001-2004] Research scientist without tenure at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2002] Ph.D. in Telematics and Information Society at the University of Florence, Department of Information Engineering, Italy.
- [2000] 12-months visiting research scientist at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland.
- [1998] "Laurea" (Master Degree) in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Florence, Faculty of Engineering, Italy.
Honors and Awards
- Oustanding Speech as Panelist, "Challenges and Future Directions in Medical Device Regulatory Science", International Symposium on Medical ICT (ISMICT), March 2016.
- Successfully contribution to standardization work in the field of Smart Body Area Network Performance and Coexistence Verification, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Sept 2017.
- Certificate of appreciation as panel speaker in recognition to valuable contribution to 13th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Oct 2018.
- Certificate of appreciation as TPC Co-Chair in recognition to valuable contribution to 13th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Oct 2018.
- [Best Paper Award] P. Lucattini, S. Jayousi, A. Martinelli, L. Mucchi, and G. Lombardi, "Social Inclusion for Children with Disabilities: The Role of ICT in Play and Entertainment Activities", 14th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Florence, Italy, 2-3 Oct. 2019.
- Certificate of appreciation as TPC Chair & Steering Committee Member in recognition of your valuable contribution to the 15th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), 21 Oct. 2020.
Memberships and Assignments
- Permanent member (since 2001) of the technical committee of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
- Senior member (since 2012) of the IEEE
- Member (since 2009) of the IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) since 2009.
- Member (since 2013) of the technical committee of the ETSI SmartBAN standardization group.
- Rapporteur (2013-2017) of the work item on "Measurements and modelling of SmartBAN Radio Frequency (RF) environment".
- Rapporteur (since 2017) of the work item on "Comparative analysis between SmartBAN and other short-range standards".
- Rapporteur (since 2018) of the work item on "Security, privacy and trust: state of the art, use cases, treats and requirements analysis".
- Associate Member (since 2013) of National Research Council, Institute of Eletronics, Information and Telecommunications Engineering (CNR-IEIIT).
- Associate Member (since 2013) of EURECON (European Association for Communications & Networking).
- Scientific coordinator (since 2014) of the reserach and teaching agreement with the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Dept. of Communications Engineering.
- Scientific coordinator (since 2014) of the reserach and teaching agreement with the Yokohama National University (Japan), Division of Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering.
- Organizer and general chair of the International Symposium on Medical ICT (ISMICT), 2-4 April 2014, Florence, Italy.
- Member (2014) of the International Steering Committee of ISMICT (International Symposium on Medical ICT).
- Member (since 2015) of the teachers' board of the Ph.D. Course in Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- Leader (2016) of the ETSI Specialist Task Force 511: SmartBAN Performance and Coexistence Verification (PCV). [website]
- Scientific coordinator (since 2017) of the "VisiCoRe" (Visible Light Communications) Research Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy.
- Member (since 2015) of the board of the PhD Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence.
- Chairman (2017-2020) of the Cyber Security sub-committee of the International Standards Committee (ISC) on Indoor Positioning Indoor Navigation (IPIN).
- Member (2017) of the "ICT for Healthcare" commission for the strategic specialization agenda of the Tuscany region.
- Scientific coordinator (since 2019) of the "MedICT" (Medical and Health Informationa and Communication Technology) Research Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy.
- Member (since 2019) of the Florence Center for Data Science.
- Associate Member (since 2019) of National Research Council, Institute of Optics (CNR-INO).
- Member (since 2020) of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS).
- Fellow Member (since 2020) of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).
- Expert member (since 2021) of the Italian Ministry of Health.
- Member (since 2021) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Member (since 2021) of the One6G Association.
- Member (since 2021) of the scientific technical committee of the Centre of Excellence on Cybersecurity (C3T) of the Tuscany region.
- Member (since 2022) of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA22168 - Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems (6G-PHYSEC).
- Chair (since 2022) of the Smart Body Area Network (SmartBAN) technical committee of the European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI).
Academic Appointments
- Responsible (since 2020) for the University of Florence of the Health Focus Gruop of ARTES 4.0
- Member (since 2020) for the University of Florence of the Horizon EU Cluster on "Security for society"
- Referent Docent (2012-2021) of the Master degree on Sciences of Spectacles
International Collaborations
- MIT, Boston, USA (Prof. Moe Win);
- Institut für Kommunikationstechnik, Hannover University, Germany (Prof. Thomas Kaiser, Dr. Andreas Wilzeck);
- Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland (Proff. Matti Latva-aho, Jari Iinatti, Markku Juntti, Dr. Matti Hamalainen);
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Oulu, Finland (Dr. Marcos Katz);
- Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfhart (DLR), Munich, Germany (Dr. Sandro Scalise, Balazs Matuz);
- Research group on Cryptology and Information Security (GiCSI), Institute of Applied Physics – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain (Prof. Agustin Martin);
- European Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy (Dr. A. Rabbachin).;
- School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Dr. Yifan Chen);
- South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China (Prof. Yifan Chen).
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (Prof. Kaibin Huang).
Visiting Experience
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Mar. 2016
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Sept. 2013
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, May. 2010
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Sept. 2006
- Center forWireless Communications (CWC)
University of Oulu, Finland - Visiting Researcher, Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2000