Leandros A. Maglaras

I am a visiting Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University and a member of the Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical Systems. I am also a visiting Professor at the School of Computer Science and Informatics of De Montfort University. From 2019 to 2022, I served as a Research Fellow at Prince Sultan University in the Security Lab. I obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly in 2008 and 2014, respectively. In 2018, I was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield.  I am currently listed among the top 0.1% of highly cited researchers globally according to Clarivate, and the top 2% of scientists, according to the Stanford University report.

From September 2017 to November 2019, I served as the Director of the Cyber Security Directorate and Head of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. I was leading a group of highly skilled professionals to organize the public sector in Greece regarding the cybersecurity of systems and applications. We implemented the NIS directive in the Greek Public sector by organizing several security awareness events, dedicated educational programs, proposing security policies and measures, and running focused projects that can foster the security of systems and applications of the Greek public sector. We also focused on securing Greece's critical infrastructure, following the directions given by the NIS directive, and cooperated with all major stakeholders in Greece, both from the public and private sectors. We drafted the Greek Cyber Security Strategy (03/2018), the NIS Greek National Law (11/2018), and the Ministerial Decree (10/2019) that included the incident response procedure, the list of OES of Greece, and minimum security requirements. During my tenure as the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority, Greece managed to be ranked 1st among 160 countries (10/2019) in the NCSI index, which measures the preparedness of countries to prevent cyber threats and manage cyber incidents, climbing 31 positions in less than 2 years. 

I have participated in various research programs investigating vehicular and ICT technologies (C4C-project.eu[FP6], reduction-project.eu[FP7]), cybersecurity (iSOCaaS[HE], CyberSuite[HE], CyberSychrony[HE], Concordia[H2020], Flourish[Innovate UK], Cockpitci.eu[FP7], Fastpass[FP7]), sustainable development (islepact.eu, smilegov), and optimization and prediction of the dielectric behavior of air gaps (optithesi.webs.com). I served as Co-Editor-in-Chief on EAI Transactions on Security & Safety from 2016 until early 2019. I serve on the Editorial Board of several International peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE Access, Elsevier Array, Elsevier ICT Express, MDPI Computers,  and IET/Wiley Information Security.   I am a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).  I

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Email: leandros.maglaras2@dmu.ac.uk, l.maglaras2@napier.ac.uk, maglaras@uth.gr 

ORCID identifier: 0000-0001-5360-9782

My entries in various bibliographic databases: Google Scholar, DBLP, Scopus

 Research Interests:

• Cyber Security

• Privacy Preservation

• Risk Management

• Routing protocols

• Vehicular networks

• Social Network Analysis