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Vladimiro Sassone is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, a position he has held since 2006. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (2007) and a member of the Academy of Europe (elected 2011) in the Informatics section with Membership Number 3063.
Professor Sassone's research focuses on the theoretical foundations of computer science, particularly in the areas of concurrency theory, formal methods, and distributed systems. His work spans semantics, type theory, logics, security and privacy, with applications to mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. He has made significant contributions to abstract models for concurrency, their categorical formalization, and behavioral equivalences for mobile processes.
His research interests encompass trust, anonymity, security, access control, typing, and coordination in distributed systems. He has pioneered work on developing robust, high-level paradigms for global ubiquitous computing through foundational research in theoretical computer science.
Professor Sassone has received significant research funding as Principal Investigator of the EPSRC "Third-Party Resource Usage for Pervasive Computing" (2003-2006) and as Co-Investigator of the EPSRC "Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading" (2006-2010). He also coordinated the EU-FET GC project "MyThS: Models and Types for Security in Distributed Systems" (2002-2005) and directed the EU Marie Curie Research Training Centre "DisCo: Foundations of Distributed Computation" (2002-2006).
- Fellow of the British Computer Society (2007)
Professor Sassone has held leadership roles in the academic community, serving as Programme Chair for IFIP-TCS 2010 (Track B), ICALP 2006 (Track B), and FOSSACS 2005. He previously served as Head of Department at the University of Sussex and has held academic positions at several prestigious institutions including University of Sussex, IT University Copenhagen, Università di Catania, Queen Mary London, and Università di Pisa.
