Riccardo Focardi is Full Professor of Computer Science, founder of the IT security team at Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Research interests of Riccardo Focardi include: system and network security, analysis of security APIs and trusted hardware, cryptography, specification and automated verification of security properties. He has published more than 100 research papers on these topics, in international journals and conferences. He holds currently an h-index of 31 (source Google Scholar) with more than 3700 citations. He has been involved into national and European projects on Computer Security and has coordinated the national project SOFT “Security-Oriented Formal Techniques” (Italian Ministry for University and Research, 2009- 2011). He has been member of many program committees of international conference: the IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy (2005), the IEEE Computer Security Foundation Symposium (Program Chair in 2003 and 2004 and General Chair in 2006 and 2007), the International Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Security (Program Chair, 2007) and the International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust (Program co-chair, 2015). Riccardo Focardi has organized the second and third "International Schools on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design" (FOSAD). He is founder and member of the steering committee of the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC). From 2016 to 2019 he has been chair of the IFIP Working Group 1.7 "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design" and from 2005 to 2019 he has been member of the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS Press). From 2012 to 2019 he has coordinated the PhD program in Computer Science at Ca’Foscari, starting an international double-degree in Cybersecurity with Masaryk University, Brno. In 2013 he has co-founded Cryptosense, a spin-off that develops software for security analysis of cryptographic systems and in 2020 he has co-founded 10Sec, a spin-off developing advanced solutions for the security of IoT devices. Riccardo Focardi has supervised two European Social Funds contracts on IT infrastructure security.