I was born in Chivasso, a little town situated in the North of the Italy, in May 8, 1978. I took my "Laurea" in Computer Science in July 2003 with grade 110/110 cum laude.

I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science in February 2, 2007 with the dissertation "A Legal and Efficient Peer-to-Peer Market Place: Exploiting Fairness and Social Relationships "

I'm currently a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science in the Universita'   degli studi di Torino where I'm a member of the Computer and Network Security Group.