Mariagrazia Fugini is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. She received the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 1987 and was a visiting professor at University of Maryland, Technical University of Vienna and Technical University of Stuttgart. She teaches Fundamentals of Computer Science and Information Systems. Her research interests are in information system security and development, software reuse, information retrieval, information systems development and re-engineering. She participated in the TODOS, ITHACA, F3, WIDE and DEAFIN UE Projects, working on information system development and re-engineering, software reuse, data security, information retrieval tools, and workflow and web application design. She participates in, and coordinates, UE and national Projects on security, web based information systems for public administrations, in particular on web services to citizens and enteprises . She is co-author of the books Database Security (Addison-Wesley, 1995) and Sicurezza dei Sistemi Informatici (in Italian, Apogeo 2001).She cooperates with Public Administrations in the design of the Portal of the Workfair for services to Employment.