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Starting from January 2022 I am a researcher (italian Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato - RTDA) within the activities of the European Union FSE-REACT-EU, PON Research and Innovation 2014–2020 DM1062/2021, mainly working on code-based and multivariate-based Post-Quantum Cryptography.


Main research:

- Code-based and Multivariate-based Digital Signature Algorithms;
- Coding Theory and computational complexity;
- Threshold Cryptography;
- Consensus algorithms for distributed ledgers. 

Other activities:

- Supervision of Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses in mathematics;
- teaching within the M.Sc. in Mathematics;
- active search for public and private funding.



In my four-and-a-half years as a postdoc I worked on several research projects, including a European Project PON 2014-2020 Ricerca ed Innovazione called “Distributed Ledgers for secure open communities (SecureOpenNets)” together with researchers from several universities (University of Trento, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, University of Calabria), research centers (italian National Research Council - CNR) and private companies. 


Main research:

- algebraic methods for post-quantum cryptography;
- Coding Theory and optimality;
- Computational Complexity of algebraic problems;
- protocols for threshold digital signature schemes based on elliptic curves;
- algebraic and cryptographic aspects of blockchain technologies;
- Design and analysis of blockchain-based protocols for data integrity verification;

Other activities:

- Supervision of M.Sc. theses in mathematics;
- active search for public and private funding.

Education


During my Ph.D. I  mainly studied Coding Theory from both a Combinatorial and an Algebraic point of view. I spent a research period at LIRMM in Montpellier with Dr. E. Guerrini to work on optimal nonlinear codes.
Part of my research involved the link between Coding Theory and Entropy Extractors, algebraic methods useful to improve the entropy rate of Random Number Generators for cryptographic purposes. This work was carried out as part of the SiQuro Project



In my M.Sc. I studied Coding Theory, Cryptography, and the Mathematics related to them. After a research internship at IdQuantique SA where I worked on the analysis of Random Number Generators I worked on the Entropy Extractors from an algebraic point of view.



My B.Sc. was focused on pretty-much-everything-is-usually-taught-regarding-Mathematics-at-Bachelor-level. I studied the basics of Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, Probability and so on. For my B.Sc. thesis I presented a famous result of Algebraic Topology known as Hurewicz Theorem, a theorem linking the Fundamental Group, Singular Homology, Čech Cohomology and Singular Cohomology.