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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø is a world-leader in teaching and researching cybersecurity.

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It is in a unique position to deliver on the vision of this innovative and interdisciplinary CDT in cybersecurity, because of its ambitious portfolio of projects and over 40 faculty membersÌýwith internationally excellent expertise across all aspects of cybersecurity.

The team is led by the Computer Science department, which was the top UK department by research output in the UK REF 2014. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø is recognized by GCHQ as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and Teaching.

The departments involved hold active research grants worth £17.9M in cybersecurity, funded by the EPSRC, Royal Society, EU H2020, and the ERC amongst others, including £300K of active direct financial gifts from industrial partners.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø leads the PETRAS project on IoT security (£9.5M) as well as its successor, SDTaP (£13M), the IRIS project on interfaces (£6.1M); the Glasshouses project on distributed ledgers (£0.9M); Cyber Readiness for Boards (£1M), ECSEPA (£250K) and BARAC on Algorithmic transparency (£0.6M). The department of Security and Crime Science hosts the £7.4M Dawes Centre for Future Crime at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø which focuses on understanding and addressing the changing nature of crime.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø‘s Departments of Security and Crime Science and Computer Science also contribute a secure data lab — the only such facility in a UK university — which is police-assured to hold sensitive data classified up to the level of secret.

CDT Leadership Team

  • Ìý(Co-Director):ÌýProfessor Carr is the Director of theÌýResearch Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber SecurityÌý(RISCS) and the Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøÌýDigital Technologies Policy Lab. Her work focuses on the international political dimensions of cybersecurity, particularly cyber norms, the policy complexities of the IoT, and decision making on cyber risk.
  • Ìý(Co-Director):ÌýProfessor Johnson is the Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø. His research focuses on what works to reduce crime, how emerging technology creates new opportunities for crime and how we might prevent it.Ìý
  • Ìý(Director):ÌýProfessor Pym is Head of the Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification research group and a Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy, which is in the University of London's School of Advanced Study. He is also aÌýfounding Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press Journal of Cybersecurity.

Current students

Cohort 1

  • Antonis Papasavva
  • Antoine Vendeville
  • Sergi Bray
  • Henry Skeoch
  • Kyriacos Demetriou
  • Arianna Trozze
  • Niamh Healy

Cohort 2

  • Alexandros Efstratiou
  • Maria Corte Real Santos
  • Gerard Buckley
  • Dan Ristea
  • Emmanouil Koulas
  • Daniel Blackwell
  • Stefanos Evripidou
  • Ilaria Pia La Torre
  • Kart Padur

Cohort 3

  • Filippo Blancato
  • Jennifer Dwyer-Joyce
  • Aliai Eusebi
  • Nadine Michaelides
  • Lilly Neubauer
  • Marilyne Ordekian
  • Demelza Luna Reaver
  • Karolina Skrivankova
  • Charles Westphal

Cohort 4

  • Kyle Beadle
  • Robert Bose
  • Alexander Brennan
  • Pinaki Chakraborty
  • Elodie Garceau
  • Chimdi Igwe
  • Emilija Mauko
  • Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai
  • Sara Rubini
  • Maria Sandoval Bravo
  • Luano Silva
  • John Solaas
  • Maria Vau

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