Laura Pierucci

Laura Pierucci (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1987. She has been with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, as an Assistant Professor, since 2000. She co-invented a patent on the use of RFID for health application. She has been involved in several national and European research projects on satellite communications, tele-medicine systems, wireless systems, and radar signal processing. She has been the Scientific Coordinator of the EU COST Action 252. She has served as an Expert for European Committee in the area of satellite communications. She has coauthored several international papers. Her current research interests include wireless communication systems especially in the topics of 4G/5G systems, resource management, D2D communications, multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems, cooperative communications, and security for wireless sensor networks and the IoT. She was a recipient of the IWCMC 2016 Best Paper Award and the Globecom 2016 Best Paper Award. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Telecommunication Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal.