Fabio Martinelli is a research director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) where he is the reference point for cyber security activities. His main research interests involve security & privacy in distributed and mobile systems and foundations of security and trust.  He is currently the Project Coordinator of the EU Network on Cyber Security (NeCS) and of the Collaborative information sharing and analytics for the cyber protection (C3ISP) project. He also serves as expert in the H2020 Protection and Security Advisory Group (PASAG) and acts as First director in the Board of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO).