Emmanuela obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mathematics of University of Milano. In 2012 she moved to the Department of Computer Science of Bristol where she was a senior research associate. In 2018 she moved to Belgium as Research Expert at COSIC, KU Leuven. Currently, Emmanuela Orsini ’s research is mainly focused on theoretical and practical aspects of secure computation and its fundamental building blocks such as oblivious transfer, secret sharing schemes and zero-knowledge protocols.