Andrea Bartoli received his Telecommunication Engineering degree from "Università Politécnico di Milano" in 2009, with a graduation thesis concerning "A security system based on Open Source" made at UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Barcelona (where he also made Erasmus project in 2008).   At UPC he completed the MSc and currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D degree in Telecommunication Engineering at CTTC (Centre Technologic de Telecomunicacion de Catalunya), Barcelona.  He is working on security in embedded networks for an industrial project called "MAESTRO" (Machine-to-Machine & Embedded Systems Security Protocol Suite) in association with ORANGE/France Telecom. He is also member, since 2010, of a security group to implement a secure standard for green and low-power networks for commercial use; this standard is called WOSA (Wavenis Open Standard Alliance).