Francesco Riboli graduated in Physics in 2002 from the University of Florence with a thesis in atomic physics. He obtained his PhD in photonics in 2005 at the University of Trento. In 2008-2009 he spent a period of work-study in the United States at Santa Clara University (CA) where he obtained a Certificate of Technological Entrepreneurship. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Optics (INO) of the National Research Council (CNR). His research activity concerns fundamental and applied photonics in the fields of telecommunications, integrated optics, renewable energy, and cyber-physical security. He is the coordinator and manager of national and international projects in the fields of classical and quantum cryptography. He is a co-author of over 70 scientific articles published in the most authoritative international journals with H-index 28 (SCOPUS)