Marco Baldi is an associate professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche. He is involved in teaching, research, and project work in the field of communications reliability and security, with a particular focus on post-quantum cryptography. He is the co-author of over 200 scientific articles, one book, and four patents. He is a member of the group proposing the LEDAcrypt, LESS, CROSS, and LEAST cryptographic schemes, which are participating in the NIST standardization processes for post-quantum cryptographic schemes.