Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. Her main research interests are access control policies, models and systems, data security and privacy, information system security, and information protection in general. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of information protection. On these topics she has published more than 80 refereed technical papers in international journals and conferences. She is co-author of the book Database Security, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, CA (USA), and at the ISSE Department of George Mason University, VA (USA). She is the Coordinator of the Working Group on security of the Italian Association for Information Processing (AICA), the Italian representative in the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 11 (TC-11) on EDP Security," the Chair of the IFIP Working Group 11.3 on Database and Applications Security. She is a member of the Steering Committees of ACM SIGSAC.