Nicola Laurenti received his Laurea in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and his PhD in Electrical and Communications Engineering in 1999, both from University of Padova. Since 2020 he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova. In 2008-2009 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2001 he became an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering, University of Padova. In 1992-93 he was an exchange student of the University of California at Berkeley.

His research activity spans the following topics:
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) security: key management schemes for GNSS services; integrity protection and source authentication for GNSS and SBAS signals; unconditional security for the GNSS infrastructure through quantum cryptography.
Quantum communications and cryptography: receiver optimization for quantum PPM modulation; optimization of binary quantum transmission through non unital channels; experimental implementation of free-space quantum key distribution protocols;
Security at the lower layers of wireless networks: Physical layer authentication for IoT devices; information theoretic physical layer secrecy for OFDM and MIMO systems in fading channels; information theoretic key agreement in wireless systems; physical layer authentication via channel estimation in fading scenarios; secure MAC layer protocols against jammers; mutual information jamming games in OFDM systems.

He has been leader of a research unit in the following projects
National position, navigation and timing cyber-response center (European Space Agency, 2018-19)
Position authenticated tachograph for OS NMA launch (European Commission, 2018-19)
Enhanced navigation in space (European Commission, H2020 2017-19)
More GNSS open service signal integrity protection and authentication at the physical layer (European Space Agency, 2016-19)
Advanced key management simulator (European Space Agency, 2016-18)
EGNOS authentication security testbed (European Commission, 2016-17)
Advanced GNSS open service signal integrity protection and authentication at the physical layer (European Space Agency, 2014-16)
Quantum Future: free space communications at the quantum limit (University of Padova, 2009-2013);
Enabling blocks for CMOS integration of a UWB Multi-band OFDM transceiver (Italian Ministry 2006-2007);

He has taught the following classes at University of Padova:
Positioning, Location and Navigation;
Information-Theoretic Methods in Security;
Information Security;
Network Security;
Advanced Digital Transmission;
Digital Commmunication;
Signal Theory

He has authored 5 chapters in edited books, 28 journal papers, 63 conference papers, 2 European patents, and is a coauthor of the textbooks "Communications Systems. Fundamentals and Design Methods" e "Principles of Communication Networks and Systems"

He has collaborated with several Italian companies such as Qascom, ST Microelectronics, Fracarro Radioindustrie and Elvox

He has obtained the Italian National Qualification for Associate Professorship in Telecommunications on April 2017.

Lecturer's Curriculum (PDF): F0B36E7AD43BF2B086B0871F04C66CD4.pdf