Jessica Illiano is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples Federico II. She received the B.Sc. degree in 2018 and then the M.Sc. degree in 2020, both summa cum laude, in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). In 2020, she was the winner of the scholarship Quantum Communication Protocols for Quantum Security and Quantum Internet, fully funded by TIM S.p.A. Since 2017, she has been a member of the Quantum Internet Research Group, FLY: Future Communications Laboratory. She completed her Ph.D in Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in January 2024. She has been awarded as a 2023 Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters (COMML). Currently, she serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and is membership co-chair of N2Women.Her research interests include quantum communications, quantum networks, and quantum information processing.