Fabio Martinelli is a research director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) where he leads the virtual lab in cybersecurity.

He is co-author of more than five hundreds of papers on international journals and conference/workshop proceedings. His main research interests involve security and privacy in distributed and mobile systems and foundations of security, privacy and trust. He founded and chaired the WG on Security and Trust management (STM) of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and the WG 11.14 in secure engineering of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).

He coordinated the EU NESSoS Network of Excellence in Future internet Security and the EU Training Network on Cyber Security (NeCS). He also served as expert in the EU H2020 Protection and Security Advisory Group (PASAG) and is vice-chairman of the Board of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO) and co-chairs ECSO WG6 on strategic research and innovation agenda (SRIA).