”Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from consideration of the effect to seek the cause; and again, the cause of that cause; till of necessity he must come to this thought at last, that there is some cause whereof there is no former cause, but is eternal; which is it men call God. So that it is impossible to make any profound inquiry into natural causes without being inclined to believe there is one God eternal.”

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

• 2021 - , Associate Professor (Universitetslektor, Docent) at the Department of Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

• 2013 - 2021, senior lecturer (Docent from 2019) at the School of Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden

• 2010 - 2013, senior researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

• 2010 - 2010, associate professor at the Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, China.

• 2009 - 2010, ERCIM postdoc fellow at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, supported by an ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" postdoctoral fellowship, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions.

• 2008 - 2009, ERCIM postdoc fellow at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, supported by an ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" postdoctoral fellowship, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions.

• 2005 - 2008, lecturer and associate professor at the Software Engineering Institute of East China Normal University, China.

• 2005 - 2006, a research fellow at the Department of Communication, Computer and System Science, University of Genoa, Italy, supported by an International research grant from the University of Genoa.

• 2001 - 2004, Doctor candidate at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, the University of Hagen in Germany, supported by DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship for PhD studies and under the supervision of Prof. Bernd J. Krämer.

• 1999 -2001, PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Jianguo Ding holds the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.) (Doctorate in Engineering) from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Hagen, Germany. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (M'05, SM'11) and a Senior Member of the ACM (M'08, SM'20). His current research interests include cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, intelligent technologies, blockchain, distributed systems management and control, and serious game.