Francesco Chiti is with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, as Associate Professor. His present research is dedicated to the synergies between the internet of things and software-defined networking/network function virtualization paradigms with application to 6G systems, 5G vehicular networks, Industry 4.0, and smart cities. In addition, he is investigating the foundation of quantum networking for non-terrestrial scenarios. He took part in national initiatives (PRIN SIPT-VARIS, PRIN PATTERNS, PRIN WORLD) and EU (NextGenerationEU NRRP “RESTART”, COST 22168, COST 289, IP “GoodFood”, NoE “NEWCOM”, CRUISE NoE, STREP “DustBot”, REGPOT AgroSense, EDA “MEDUSA”). He served the IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee as Secretary (2013–2015), Vice Chair (2015–2019) and Chair (2020–2021). He has been involved as the “Communication & Information System Security” Symposium Chair for IEEE ICC’25, IEEE Globecom’21 and IEEE Globecom’16. He is the Associate Editor of Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, Wiley Security and Privacy Journal, and Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal.