Adamantini Peratikou holds a PhD in Parallel Processing and Optimization Algorithms, a BSc in Computing from the University of Portsmouth, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Technology. She is a member of the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Research Lab (CTRL) of the Open University of Cyprus, where she is currently working in various funded projects in the field of Cybersecurity and Networking. The past couple of years, part of her research work is related to Cyber Ranges and Cybersecurity training. She has published several papers in international peer reviewed conferences and journals in the areas of Cyber Ranges, Networks and Interconnection Architectures. She has served as a reviewer in a number of international conferences. She is in the technical programme committee for IEEE-ICC GCSN symposium, IEEE-CIT and IEEE Greencom for the past 7 consecutive years. Dr. Peratikou has experience in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. (https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/profiles/99-adamantini-peratikou).

Dr. Eliana Stavrou holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) from the University of Cyprus and a Master in Advanced Information Technologies from the same university. Dr. Stavrou is performing applied research in the area of cybersecurity education to address the challenges relevant to developing cybersecurity capabilities. Specifically, she is developing specialized educational and training curricula, and realistic practical activities, using innovative pedagogies and educational technologies to achieve effective teaching and learning. Dr. Stavrou has a special interest in the development of cyber resilience competencies, empowering people to anticipate, defend, recover from and adapt to cyber-attacks, through the promotion of a cyber situational awareness culture. In this context, her investigations focus on threat profiling aspects in different environments e.g., SMEs, critical Information Systems (IS), etc., to identify the attack exposure and to improve workforce and ISs capabilities. Primary sources of threat information and classification informing her investigations, include industrial cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK matrixes, and threat intelligence information shared by the cyber community. Moreover, she is working towards bridging the skills shortage in cybersecurity by highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of cybersecurity and attracting people with different backgrounds to work in this area. Beyond upskilling the workforce, she also has a special interest to improve the cyber resilience capabilities of citizens. To this end, she is developing educational content and practical activities to improve citizens’ cybersecurity situational awareness, and to promote a culture of best practices, starting from an early childhood, e.g., engaging kids through STEM. She is also investigating security challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT), developing security solutions across the IoT ecosystem. Dr. Stavrou is a member of several working groups and advisory boards related to cybersecurity capabilities development, research and innovation. She has published a number of scientific papers at premier international journals and conferences and has been the principle investigator of a number of ICT and cybersecurity-related R&D projects funded by national, European and international funding programmes. (https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/profiles/98-eliana-stavrou).

Professor Stavros Stavrou holds a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from the University of Surrey (U.K.). His area of expertise spans areas in Communication Networks, Telecommunication Systems and Cybersecurity. He has published extensively in peer reviewed publications, has graduated several Ph.D. students in topics related to his above research areas, and has managed a large number of research projects as a Primary Investigator (PI) from research councils, government organizations and industrial collaborations. His current research interests span through different topics between layer 1 and 3 of the OSI model. He has contributed towards numerous technical reports and he is the patent holder of a mobile phone jammer. He has been the author/co- author and principal investigator of a number of successful research proposals, targeting research councils and industry. Professor Stavrou is the first elected chairman of the Cybersecurity Configuration of the European Security and Defence College, and a member of its Executive Academic Board. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy U.K.). (https://www.ouc.ac.cy/index.php/en/profiles/stavros-stavrou).

Dr. Cristina Alcaraz (F) is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Malaga (UMA). She obtained her PhD in Computer Science by UMA in 2011, and her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science by the same university in 2006. She was awarded two highly competitive postdoctoral fellowships, Marie-Curie in 2012 under the COFUND program and Ramón-y-Cajal in 2015, and was a guest researcher at NIST (2011–2012, USA), visiting later the Royal Holloway (2012–2014 under the Marie-Curie Confund postdoctoral fellowship), UCBM (2017, Rome) and Neurosoft (2019 and 2022, Athens). Dr. Alcaraz, ranked among the top 2% of scientists since 2020-present, has published 95+ papers (with 40 publications indexed in JCR – 20-Q1, 15-Q2, 5-Q3) with interest in the security of cyber-physical systems, Industry 5.0/4.0, Industrial IoT, digital twins and aerospace networks, focusing her research on situational awareness, advanced detection, and resilience. She is IEEE OT Department Editor, Associate Editor of 7+ influential journals on security, such as the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Tran. on Dependable and Secure, Int. Journal of Critical Infr. Protection, International Journal of Information Security, Distributed Ledger Technologies (ACM), IEEE Networking Letters, among others. In the academic context, she regularly teaches cybersecurity related to network security and industrial security, both at the undergraduate and master’s levels. It should also be noted that Dr. Alcaraz received the ‘Special Mention for Teaching Quality’ and the ‘Teaching Excellence’ from the International University of Andalusia in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Dr. Alcaraz also received the recognition of “Women in Homeland Security” from the IEEE SMC TC on Homeland Security in 2021, and she is Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc SIG on Green Digital Twin Network. (https://www.nics.uma.es/cristina-alcaraz/).

Laszlo Erdodi lives in Oslo, Norway, where he is Associate Professor at the University Oslo (UiO) and also at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Laszlo Erdodi has 15+ years of experience in offensive security with numerous ethical hacking projects including specific tasks such as exploit development and power grid attacks. His main research fields are reinforcement learning aided cyber-attacks and power grid security. He is the head coach of the Norwegian student. (https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/laszloe/index.html).

Audun Jøsang is Professor of cybersecurity at the University of Oslo, as well as adjunct professor at QUT in Australia. Prof. Jøsang is widely known for his research on trust and reputation systems in digital environments, such as online marketplaces and social media. One of Jøsang’s key contributions is the development of Subjective Logic, a mathematical framework for reasoning under uncertainty, which has applications in areas like risk assessment, decision-making, artificial intelligence and the analysis of trust in social networks. This work is widely used in both academia and industry. Prof. Jøsang has an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway College, University of London, and an MSc in Telecommunications from NTNU where he also obtained his PhD. Books authored by Prof. Jøsang are Subjective Logic: A Formalism for Reasoning Under Uncertainty, and Cybersecurity: Technology and Governance. (https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/josang/).