Barbara Guidi
Editorial Board, Risk Sciences
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Barbara Guidi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy. She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 2007, 2011, and 2015, respectively.
Her research interests include distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, decentralized online social networks, complex networks, and social network analysis, with a particular focus on blockchain technologies, Web3 social media, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and the metaverse.
She served as General Chair of ACM GoodIT 2026 and Co-Chair of EAI GoodTechs 2017, and has co-chaired several international workshops. She regularly serves on the technical program committees of international conferences and as a reviewer for scientific journals. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, and an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. She is also a founding member of IEEE METASIG, the IEEE Special Interest Group on the Metaverse.
She contributed to several European projects, such as the H2020 HELIOS project and the Horizon Europe project PANDORA, respectively as work package leader and project member. Her recent research activities include participation in Italian National projects as well as Italian Regional projects. She has received several Best Paper Awards, including those at DCNET 2013, LSDVE 2017, LSDVE 2018, and IOTSMS 2019.