Biography
Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos is a lecturer of cybersecurity at Edinburgh Napier University, where he received his PhD in Privacy-Preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity in 2022, and an MSc in Advanced Security and Digital Forensics in 2019. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Systems from the University of Piraeus, Greece. Pavlos is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and a member of the Blockpass Identity Lab (BIL). Pavlos has over 25 publications in international journals, conferences and books, and his research has been cited over 400 times. In 2019, he and a team of PhD students from BIL won awards at the Diffusion Berlin hackathon for their work on "Identity and beyond with Hyperledger" and "Machine Learning in the Decentralized World". His research focuses on cybersecurity, distributed ledger technology, privacy-preserving machine learning, and related topics. His expertise has led him to found TrueDeploy, a venture funded from Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK for its innovative technology developed from Pavlos' PhD research. Pavlos has also been involved in teaching courses related to AWS and cloud concepts, operating systems, network security, penetration testing, incident response, and malware analysis.