From November 1996 to November 2000 she was a PhD student in Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "Renato M. Capocelli", University of Salerno, under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo De Santis. From September 1999 to April 2000 she was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, doing research with Prof. Douglas Stinson.

In 2001 she received the Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno. The title of the thesis was Secure Metering on the Web and was supervised by Prof. Alfredo De Santis.

From March 2001 to February 2002 she was with the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni  holding a postdoc position (Assegno di Ricerca). In July 2001 she was a visiting researcher at the Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada IV, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Since March 2002 she has been an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni .

She is a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) Her research interests include Data Security and Cryptography.

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