Federica Paci

Federica Paci received the equivalent of a combined bachelors/masters degree in computer science from the University of Milan. She received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Milan, Italy, in February 2008. She is a postdoc in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. She works in the Secure Change European project. From February 2008 to March 2009, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. Her main research interests include access control for service oriented architectures and for virtual organizations and trust negotiations. Currently, she is exploring security issues in the context of social networks. During the year of 2005 and 2006, she was a visiting research scholar at the Computer Science Department of Purdue University. She is the author or coauthor of more than 15 conference papers and journal articles. She also coauthored a book on Web services security.