Marino Miculan

Disce, sed a doctis, indoctos ipse doceto.

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I am Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics of the University of Udine.

This website collects some information about my current and past research, including my publications, the scientific projects I am involved in, my academic services and my teaching activities.

My current research focuses on ensuring the security and trustworthiness of distributed, component-based, and smart systems. These interconnected systems involve numerous heterogeneous components, which makes analyzing their behavior a complex challenge. To address this, I leverage formal methods to develop novel models, languages, methodologies, and verification techniques to specify, analyze, and ensure the security and trustworthiness of these systems. If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to reach out.

Besides, I know something about type theory, proof assistants, logical frameworks, nominal sets, category theory and categorical logic, process calculi, coalgebras, semantics, session types, bigraphs, distributed ledgers.

I founded and currently lead the Models and Applications of Distributed Systems laboratory, the Udine node of the CINI National CyberSecurity laboratory, and the MadrHacks, the ethical hacking team of the University of Udine.
I have the fortune to work with great people.

latest news (more)

Mar 3, 2026 PhD Commission and talk about CIE at University of Milano Bicocca
Mar 1, 2026 I am honored to serve on the Program Committee of SeRIM 2026.
Feb 28, 2026 Talk about "Criptovalute: Informazione, Sicurezza e Opportunità"
Feb 9, 2026 On February 9th–13th I am attending ITASEC 2026 in Cagliari, where we’ll be presenting two papers.
Jan 21, 2026 PRIN 2022 "STENDHAL" Final meeting, at DMIF, University of Udine

selected publications (more)

  1. Castelnovo, D., & Miculan, M. (2025). On the Axioms of 𝓜,𝓝-Adhesive Categories. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(1:22)2025
  2. Paier, M., Van Eeden, R., & Miculan, M. (2024). Formal Analysis of Multi-Factor Authentication Schemes in Digital Identity Cards. In A. Madeira & A. Knapp (Eds.), International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2024 (pp. 423–440). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77382-2_24
  3. Pasqua, M., & Miculan, M. (2023). AbU: A calculus for distributed event-driven programming with attribute-based interaction. Theoretical Computer Science, 958, 113841. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2023.113841
  4. Miculan, M., & Vitacolonna, N. (2023). Automated Verification of Telegram’s MTProto 2.0 in the Symbolic Model. Computers & Security, 103072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.103072
  5. Stolze, C., Miculan, M., & Di Gianantonio, P. (2023). Composable partial multiparty session types for open systems. Software and Systems Modeling, 22, 473–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-022-01040-x