Christos Kalloniatis

(University of the Aegean, GR)

Dr. Christos Kalloniatis holds a PhD from the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean, a master degree on Computer Science from the University of Essex, UK and a Bachelor degree in Informatics from Technological Educational Institute of Athens. Currently he is a full time Professor and former head of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean and director of the Privacy Engineering and Social Informatics (PrivaSI) research laboratory. He is a member of board of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and former member of the board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy. His main research interests are the elicitation, analysis and modelling of security and privacy requirements in traditional and cloud-based systems, the analysis and modelling of forensic-enabled systems and services, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the design of Information System Security and Privacy in Cultural Informatics. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences and has served as a visiting professor in many European Institutions. Prior to his academic career he has served at various places on the Greek public sector including the North Aegean Region and Ministry of Interior, Decentraliastion and e-Governance. He is a lead-member of the Cultural Informatics research group as well as the privacy requirements research group in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean and has a close collaboration with the Laboratory of Information & Communication Systems Security of the University of the Aegean. He has served as a member of various development and research projects. In the context of 3D-CIRCULAR, Dr. Christos Kalloniatis acts as an indicative teacher within the project’s educational activities.

Cristina Alcaraz

(University Of Malaga, ES)

Dr. Cristina Alcaraz is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Malaga, where she conducts research in cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection, focusing on security for cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0/5.0, IIoT, and digital twins. She earned her PhD in Computer Science with European Doctorate mention from the University of Malaga and has held competitive postdoctoral fellowships including Marie-Curie and Ramón y Cajal, with research stays at NIST and Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Alcaraz has participated in numerous European and national research projects, published extensively in top journals, and serves on editorial boards of several international IEEE and ACM journals.

Sara Foresti (Università Degli Studi di Milano, IT)

Sara Foresti is professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica of the Università degli Studi di Milano. She received the PhD in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano in April 2009. Her PhD thesis received the ERCIM STM WG 2010 award for the best PhD thesis on security and trust management in a European University. Her research interests are in the area of data security and privacy, with particular consideration of access control and information protection in the emerging scenario. Within this area, she has published more than 80 contributions as papers in international conferences and journals, and chapters in international books. She has been visiting researcher at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), George Mason University, VA, USA. She has authored the book Preserving Privacy in Data Outsourcing, Springer, 2011. She has been/is program co-chair for the 10th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP 2016), the 15th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2016), the 1st IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2015), the 11th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2015), the 12th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2013), and the 10th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2013), the 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2012), the 5th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2011), the 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2010). She is chair of the IFIP WG 11.3 Working Group on Data and Applications Security and Privacy. She has served as program committee member of various international conferences. She is a member of the editorial board of IEEE TDSC. She is IEEE senior member (2016).

Ludwig Fuchs (University of Regensburg, DE)

Dr. Ludwig Fuchs studied Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Regensburg, Germany and had completed his dissertation in the area in 2009. In between 2004 and 2009 he studied and researched at the University of York (UK) and the University of Texas (San Antonio, USA) together with well-known academics in the field of IT security (eg Prof. Dr. Ravi Sandhu, “RBAC”). His main research interest encompasses Identity Management within mid-sized and large organizations. Over the last ten years, Ludwig Fuchs gathered practical and academic experience and published the results at several international IT security conferences. His expert knowledge has also been underlined throughout his work in several industry projects, bridging the gap between practical requirements and latest academic research results.

Steven Furnell (University of Plymouth, UK)

He is Professor of Cyber Security in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, as well as an Adjunct Professor with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and an Honorary Professor with Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. I am also the UK Representative to Technical Committee 11 (Security and Privacy Protection) within the International Federation for Information Processing, as well as a board member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and chair the academic partnership committee.

Vasileios Gkioulos (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)

He is Professor of Cyber Security in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, as well as an Adjunct Professor with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and an Honorary Professor with Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. I am also the UK Representative to Technical Committee 11 (Security and Privacy Protection) within the International Federation for Information Processing, as well as a board member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security and chair the academic partnership committee.

Sebastian Heil

(Chemnitz University of Technology, DE)

Sebastian Heil is a Senior Researcher (tenured) at the Distributed and Self-organizing Systems Group at Chemnitz University of Technology. His research is in the field of Web Engineering and focuses on trustworthy and human-centric AI-driven methods for the analysis and creation of web user interfaces, technologies for web-based frontends, as well as interaction aspects in the context of conversational user interfaces and Web of Things. To that end, he combines his experience in Applied AI, Software Engineering and HCI to explore new methods of designing, implementing and assessing user interfaces towards a future in which humans and AI co-create and interact within the next generation of the Web. In ENFIELD, he contributes a Software Engineering/HCI perspective to the creation of trustworthy-by-design web-based systems, co-leading research activities in the Trustworthy AI research pillar.

Nektaria Kaloudi (Norwegian University, NO)

Maria Karyda (University of the Aegean, GR)

Dr. Karyda holds a PhD in Information Systems from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), specializing in Information Systems Security Management. Her doctoral research focused on the organizational development, implementation, and integration of information security policies. She also holds an M.Sc. in Information Systems and a B.Sc. in Informatics from AUEB. Her research interests include Information Systems, Information Systems Security Management, Privacy, and Social Networks. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in areas such as Management Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Systems Theory, IT Project Management, and Information Systems Security.

Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University, NO)

Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors and Professor with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. In 2019 he was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. In May-June 2023 he served as Minister of Digital Governance in the interim (caretaking) government of the Hellenic Republic. He was listed in the Stanford University list of the top 2% most cited scientists worldwide and in 2024 he was listed in the ScholarGPS Top Scholars list of the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings papers. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, he has co-authored/edited 52 books and conference proceedings and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 1000 international scientific conferences. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the ESORICS Conference (chair 2017-2023) and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer).

Georgios Kavallieratos (Norwegian University, NO)

Dr Georgios Kavallieratos was awarded his Ph.D. in Information Security and Communication Technology by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU in 2021. Moreover, he received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and the M.Sc. degree in digital systems security in 2016 and 2018, respectively, from the University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece. He is a certified ISO 27001:2013 lead auditor for information security management systems. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU, Norway. Previously, he held a postdoctoral researcher position at NTNU and served as an Associate

Professor in Cybersecurity of Cyber-Physical Systems with the Department of Technology Systems at the University of Oslo, Norway. His main line of research concerns topics related to Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Physical Systems security, and particularly, those associated with the risk management, attack/threat modelling, and trustworthy artificial intelligence. His research interests are related to the security of cyber physical systems, in a number of application domains that include inter alia the energy, health, maritime, and space sectors.

Spyros Kokolakis (University of the Aegean, GR)

Dr. Spyros Kokolakis is a Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. He holds a B.Sc. (Informatics) and a Ph.D. (Information Systems) from the Athens University of Economics & Business (GR). He has been involved in several national and EU-funded R&D projects in the area of Information and Communication Systems Security. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences.

Aikaterini-Georgia Mavroeidi (University of the Aegean, GR)

Katerina Mavroeidi holds a BSc from the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean and a Master degree on Cultural Informatics and Communication from the same University. She has also achieved a Master degree on Information Security from the University of Brighton. Additionally, she holds a PhD from the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. Her PhD dissertation focused on privacy awareness through gamified educational programs. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean.Her skills include computer graphics and user interface design with the focus on user experience and usability evaluation. Her second master degree broadened her knowledge on Information Security. Based on that, her skills include also analysis and modelling of security and privacy requirements, software architecture and risk management. Her dissertation of this master was about usable security. In addition, her interests lie in the area of usable privacy. Concerning her personal skills, she can communicate and give presentations to a technical or non-technical audience and she has organisational skills.

Michail Pantelelis (University of the Aegean, GR)

Mr. Michail Pantelelis holds a diploma from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (1999) and a master degree from the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean (2003). Currently works for the Research Unit of the University of the Aegean as head of the IT department with responsibilities including systems administration, software requirements analysis, application development and team management. He is also a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (2020). He is a highly motivated and experienced software engineer. His interests include Information Systems, Architectures and Patterns, Programming and Domain Specific Languages. He has excellent skills in engaging new technologies and practices, currently evaluating event sourcing, nosql databases, message queuing and automated software testing, in the context of privacy and security. Seeks for the abstraction behind the requirements and radical views for the perception of reality. Open source upholder and Ruby fan.

Eduard Petlenkov (University of Technology Tallinn, EE)

Eduard Petlenkov received his PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. He is a Tenured Full Professor of Intelligent Control Systems at the Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology and the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Systems.

His main research interests lie in the domain of nonlinear control, system analysis, computational intelligence, fractional order systems and energy informatics. He is also actively involved in development of intelligent energy efficient control algorithms for commercial buildings.

Sandeep Pirbhulal (Norwegian Computing Center Oslo, NO)

Dr. Sandeep Pirbhulal is currently working as Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center, Norway. Dr. Pirbhulal received his Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT-CAS), China (2014-2018). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (2020-2021). He also served as a postdoc researcher at SIAT-CAS China (2018-2019), and UBI Portugal (2019-2020). Dr. Pirbhulal has vast experience of 7-8 years in Academia & Research. His current research focuses on cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, tele-healthcare, risk management, ML/DL/AI learning, privacy and security for WSNs, 5G, and Internet of Things. He has published several scientific articles (including peer-reviewed journals and international conferences) comprising IEEE Transactions, Elsevier’s JCR Q1 other high impact factor venues. Dr. Pirbhulal has extensive management experience in national and international research projects. He was Principal Investigator/Team Lead of the project entitled, “Parallel Structure-based Biometric Authentication Mechanism for Secure Transmission of Sensitive Clinical Information”, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018-2019). Dr. Pirbhulal has reviewed more than 100 papers in the reputed peer-reviewed journal such as IEEE Access, IEEE JBHI, IEEE transactions etc. He is an editorial board member of MDPI Signals Journal (since 2020). Since, three years (2019-2021), he is the Organizing Chair of the Workshop on Decentralized Technologies and Applications for IoT (D’IoT) in conjunction with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC). He also serves as a TPC member of several conferences, seminars, and workshops at the national and international levels.

Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

Bart Preneel received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is currently full professor (gewoon hoogleraar) at the KU Leuven and he is heading the COSIC group. He has been visiting professor at the DTU in Denmark (2007), TU Graz in Austria (1997-2006), Univ. of Bergen in Norway (1997-2001), Ruhr-Univ.t in Bochum (Germany) (2001-2002) and at the Univ. of Ghent (1994-2002). He has been a scientific advisor of Philips Research (the Netherlands). During the academic year 1993-1994, he was a research fellow of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are cryptology, cybersecurity and privacy. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific publications and is an inventor of five patents. He is has served as a member of the Editorial Board of five journals and has served as program chair of 20 conferences including Eurocrypt, CHES, FSE, ESORICS, and Financial Cryptology. He has been invited speaker at more than 120 conferences in more than 40 countries. He has testified multiple times for the European Parliament. In 2014 he received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics, in 2016 he received the Kristian Beckman Award from IFIP TC11 and in 2018 he received the ESORICS Award for Outstanding Research. He has been project manager of the European CSA ECRYPT and the Marie-Curie Integrated Training Network ECRYPT (http://www.ecrypt.eu.org). He has been active in standardization since 1989; he has edited five international standards. He is president of LSEC and has been president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research). He is a fellow of the IACR, a member of the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) and of the Academia Europaea. He frequently consults for the technology and financial sectors and is involved with several start-ups in the area of e-security.

Pierangela Samarati (Università Degli Studi di Milano, IT)

Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Università degli Studi di Milano. Her main research interests are in data protection, security, and privacy. She has coordinated and participated in several projects, funded by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry or Research, involving different aspects of information protection. On these topics she has published more than 300 papers appeared in international journals, conference proceedings, and books. She is co-author of the book "Database Security," Addison-Wesley, 1995.

She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, CA (USA), and at the Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, VA (USA).

She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group (STM), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is the Italian representative in the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 11 (TC-11) on "Security and Privacy". She is a member of the Steering Committee of: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC), International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), and International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS). She is IEEE Fellow (2012), ACM Fellow (2021), IFIP Fellow (2021), and ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009). She has received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2018), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016), the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award (2008), and the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2012).

She has been serving on the editorial board of various journals and in the program committees of various conferences. She has been Editor in Chief of the Journal of Computer Security (2010-2019), Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2019-), Area Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020-), Senior Editor of the Transactions on the Web (2018-), and Associate Editor for various journals and transactions, including ACM Computing Surveys (2004-). She has served as Program Chair or co-Chair for various conferences including International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT,2010-2020), International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS,2012), ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS,2007), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC,2004-2008), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS,2003-2004), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS,2001), IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference (SEC,2003/2008), IFIP WG11.3 Conference on Database Security (DBSEC,1996/2004/2015).

Aggeliki Tsohou (Ionian University, GR)

Aggeliki Tsohou holds a Diploma in Informatics from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece (1998) and a M.Sc. in Information Systems from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece (2004). She also holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems Security Management completed under the supervision of Prof. S. Kokolakis, at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece (2010). She has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Finland and Senior Research Fellow in Brunel Business School, UK. She is a co-author of more than fifty research publications in international scientific journals and conferences in her interest field, including Journal of Information Technology, Journal for the Association of Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IT & People, ECIS and MCIS. She is an Editorial Board Member for four peer-reviewed international scientific research Journals. She has served on the Program Committee of thirty international conferences and as a Reviewer in more than fifty international scientific journals and conferences in the information systems and information security field. She has been involved in the FP7 European Projects OASIS, CEES and UbiPOL. She serves as the scientific coordinator for Ionian University for the European projects DEFeND (Horizon 2020) and OCTANE (Interreg). She is working as a consultant to ENISA providing expertise in information security awareness for the preparation of the European Cyber Security Month and in Peer Review methodologies in compliance with the NIS2.

Sushma Venkatesh (Norwegian University, NO)

Dr. Sushma Venkatesh holds a PhD in Information Security from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. She is a co-founder of an AI start-up, where she has worked as a Data Scientist. Dr.Sushma has published extensively in leading journals and international conferences and serves as a reviewer for several reputed venues. Her research focuses on trustworthy AI and biometric security, with particular emphasis on facial morphing and presentation attack detection, as well as natural language processing (NLP).

Aikaterini Vgena (University of the Aegean, GR)

Katerina Vgena holds a Diploma from the Department of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Master degree on Social Identity and Social Trauma from the University of the Aegean. She is a PhD graduate at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of the AegeanHer research interests include investigating, exploring and examining the interdisciplinary area of Social Sciences, Digital Privacy and Geolocation in the field of Social Software Engineering.

Edgar Weippl (Vienna University of Technology, AT)

Edgar Weippl is a full Professor of Security and Privacy at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, where his research focuses on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and the security of production systems engineering. He is also Research Director at SBA Research, a centre he co-founded, and has held leadership roles in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Security and Quality Improvement in Production Systems. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at TU Wien and has held academic and research positions internationally, including in the US and Japan.

Shouhuai Xu (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO)

Shouhuai Xu is the Gallogly Chair Professor in Cybersecurity, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). Prior to joining UCCS in 2021, he was with the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio. He pioneered a systematic approach, dubbed Cybersecurity Dynamics, to modeling and quantifying cybersecurity from a holistic perspective. This approach has three orthogonal research thrusts: cybersecurity metrics, cybersecurity data analytics, and cybersecurity first-principle modeling (for seeking cybersecurity laws). His research has won several awards, including the 2019 worldwide adversarial malware classification challenge organized by the MIT Lincoln Lab. His research has been funded by AFOSR, AFRL, ARL, ARO, DOE, NSA, NSF and ONR. Dr. Xu co-initiated the International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec) and is serving as its Steering Committee Chair. He has served as Program Committee co-chair for several international conferences. He is/was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE T-IFS), and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IEEE TNSE). More information about his research can be found at https://xu-lab.org.

Diamantopoulou Vasiliki (University of the Aegean, GR)

Dr. Vasiliki Diamantopoulou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean.
She holds a Diploma in Product and Systems Design Engineering, an MSc in Management of Information Systems and a PhD in Information Systems and Innovation, from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece. She has also worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Brighton, UK.
Her public scientific work includes book chapters and one book. Moreover, her work has been published in journals and in the proceedings of international refereed conferences. The focus of her publications is on Privacy and Security of Information Systems, eGovernment and Interoperability Frameworks, and eBusiness and Innovation of Information Systems.
She has reviewed several journals and conference papers.
She has nine-year experience in managing several National and EU funded R&D projects from a research and an administrative viewpoint.
She is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the British Computer Society (BCS).

She is certified ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor by TÜV Austria Hellas and Data Protection Officer (DPO) Executive by TÜV Austria Hellas.

Christoforos Ntantogian (Ionian University, GR)

Sabarathinam Chockalingam (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway)