Mauro Conti is an Associate Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He obtained his PhD. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his PhD., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU (2008), UCLA (2010), UCI (2012, 2013, and 2014), and TU Darmstadt (2013). He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His main research interest is in the area of security and privacy. He is Senior Member of the IEEE.