Riccardo Aragona born in Rome in 1980, he is a researcher at the DISIM of the University of L’Aquila, on issues relating to groups of permutations and symmetric cryptography. After graduating in Mathematics at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, he obtained a doctorate in Mathematics at the “Tor Vergata” University of Rome in co-tutorship with the Northeastern University of Boston. After 9 years of research grants at the “Sapienza” and the University of Trento, he arrived in L’Aquila in 2018.