LAURA RICCI received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pisa. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. She has been a member of the group for the definition of the Italian national strategy on blockchains. She has been involved in several research projects and is the Local Coordinator of the H2020 European Project—Helios: A content aware Distributed Networking Framework. Her research interests include distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and social network analysis. She has coauthored more than 150 articles published in international journals and conference/workshop proceedings in these fields. She has served as a program committee member, and the chair for several conferences. She is an editor of international journals on blockchain technology.