Short Biography
Sara Foresti is professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica of the Università degli Studi di Milano. She received the PhD in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano in April 2009. Her PhD thesis received the ERCIM STM WG 2010 award for the best PhD thesis on security and trust management in a European University. Her research interests are in the area of data security and privacy, with particular consideration of access control and information protection in the emerging scenario. Within this area, she has published more than 140 contributions as papers in international conferences and journals, and chapters in international books. She has been visiting researcher at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), George Mason University, VA, USA. She has authored the book Preserving Privacy in Data Outsourcing, Springer, 2011. She has been chair of the IFIP WG 11.3 Working Group on Data and Applications Security and Privacy. She is a member of the editorial board of IEEE TDSC, IEEE TETC, Springer IJIS. She is IEEE Senior Member (2016).