Marco received his Master’s degrees in Data Science and Business Informatics from the University of Pisa and in Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection from the University of Genoa. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Pisa and a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy. He has been a visiting research student at the AUTO-ID Lab at MIT and at Arizona State University. His research interests include cybersecurity and privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems, with a focus on authentication protocols, Software-Defined Vehicles, and AI-integrated security mechanisms.