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About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. My main interests are in distributed systems security and privacy, with special focus on applied cryptography, decentralised systems, and privacy-preserving computations.

Research areas:

Security, Privacy, Distributed Systems

Selected Publications (see all)

All Publications (see selected)

Ongoing Projects

2027-2028 NEXTCHAIN - Building the next generation of Blockchain applications by bridging the gap between Distributed Systems and Applied Cryptography
Role: Coordinator Funding: 60k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2025-2026 APOSTLE - new Approaches for Secure Distributed Data Processing and Access
Role: Coordinator Funding: 50k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2023-2026 SMaRtChain - Fast and Energy-efficient Distributed Consensus for Blockchains
Role: Co-Coordinator Funding: 132k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

Past Projects

2023-2026 Myriarch - FraMewoRk for a multI-ARCHitecture Internet
Role: Researcher Funding: 255k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2022-2023 DaNon - Supervised Deanonymization of Dark Web Traffic for Cybercrime Investigation
Role: Researcher & Local Coordinator Funding: 69k € Type: CMU Portugal Exploratory Project

2018-2022 HADES - HArdware-backed trusted and scalable DEcentralized Systems
Role: Coordinator Funding: 239k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2018-2022 SAMOA - Secure and Scalable Platform for Massive-scale Mobile Applications
Role: Task Leader Funding: 234k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2017-2019 LightKone - Lightweight Computations on the Edge
Role: Researcher Funding: 3.5M € Type: EU H2020

Awards

.PT Honourable Mention @ 2025 Arquivo.pt Awards
For the work: ArchiveChain - Archiving the past, empowering the future

2025 LASIGE Best Outreach Initiative Award
For the work: ArchiveChain - Archiving the past, empowering the future

Invited Talks

Searching Encrypted Data in the Cloud
EU COST Action IC1402 Workshop on Security and Privacy. Siracusa, Italy. September 2018.

Searching Encrypted Data in the Cloud: the Quest for Practical Security
73rd Workshop of IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. Goa, India. January 2018.

Service

Organization

EDCC 2025 - Publicity Chair

INForum 2024 - Financial Chair

SafeComp 2020 - Publicity Chair

W-PSDS 2019 - Co-Organizer

OPODIS 2018 - Proceedings Chair

Program Committees

DSN 2026 - PC Member

EDCC 2026 - PC Member

INForum 2025 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - PC Member

INForum 2024 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - PC Co-Chair

OPODIS 2023 - PC Member

W-PSDS 2019 - PC Co-Chair

INForum 2019 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - PC Member

INForum 2018 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - PC Co-Chair

Journal Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

IEEE Transactions on Computers – Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

IEEE Access

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Information Systems

Security and Communication Networks

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Students

Current

Joel Samper (PhD - FC/UL)

Rafael Correia (MSc - FC/UL - Co-Adviser Alex Davidson)

Teaching

PhD in Computer Science

Future Internet (2024)

MSc in Computer Science & MSc in Information Security

Applied Security (2024), Data Privacy and Security (2022-25), Middleware Technologies (2021), Intrusion Detection and Tolerance (2021)

BSc in Computer Science

Distributed Systems (2017,2019-22), Computer Networks (2019-25), Computer Systems Architecture (2020-23), Security and Reliability (2020), Introduction to Programming (2008,2011-14), Object-Oriented Programming (2012,2016)