Lorenzo Mucchi

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ABOUT LORENZO MUCCHI

Lorenzo Mucchi is an Associate Professor of the University of Florence (Italy), Dept. of Information Engineering, since 2018. He received the Dr. Eng. Degree (Laurea) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Florence (Italy) in 1998 and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Information Society in 2001. From 2001 to 2018 he has been with the Department as a Research Scientist. In he spent a 12-months period of research at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. He\'s teaching courses at the University of Florence since 2008. His main research areas include theoretical modelling, algorithm design and real measurements, mainly focused in the following fields: physical-layer security, visible light communications, spread spectrum techniques (UWB), localization, body area networks, biometric encryption, molecular communications, diversity techniques and interference management. Currently, he has published 8 book chapters, 32 papers in international journals and more than 80 papers in international conference proceedings during his research activity. Dr. Mucchi is senior member (2012) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers member (2009) of the Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) and permanent member of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on Telecommunications. In 2004 he was the lead organizer and general chair of the International Symposium on Medical ICT (ISMICT). He is associate editor of Communications Letter (2016). He has been Guest Editor and Editor-in-chief for ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS LIBRARY and for the International Journal of Ultra Wide Band Communication Systems (IJUWBCS). Dr. Mucchi is member of the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) Smart Body Area Network (SmartBAN) group (2013). All details are available at: