Leonardo Mostarda is an associate professor at Mathematics and Computer Science department, University of Perugia. He got his Ph.D. in 2006 at the Computer Science Department,University of L'Aquila. He cooperated with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners on the CUSPIS FP6 project to design and implement novel security protocols and secure geo tags for works of art authentication. In 2007 he was Research Associate at the Computing Department, Distributed System and Policy Group, Imperial College London. There, he was working on the UBIVAL EPSRC project in cooperation with Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham and UCL for building a novel middleware for programming wireless sensor networks. In 2010 he was Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University at the Distributed Systems and Networking Department. In 2013 he joined the Computer Science Division, Camerino University where he had the director role till 2017. From 2018 to 2023, Leonardo Mostarda has been CEO of the BilancioCO2zero spinoff. He is member of the Italian Blockchain Service Infrastructure and an active researcher on various aspects of IoT, Security and Blockchain.