Key details
Professor Emmanouil (Manos) Panaousis
Professor of Cyber Security and Deputy Head, Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (Cyber and Privacy Risk Management)
Emmanouil (Manos) Panaousis is a Professor of Cyber Security and Deputy Head of the Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich. His research revolves around modeling, assessing and mitigating cybersecurity and privacy risks. He is currently researching methods of assessing cyber and privacy risks posed by AI.
He has published his research in top-tier journals including, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE IoT, COSE, DSS, IEEE TI, ACM TIST, JISA, CSR, IEEE Access and at esteemed international conferences such as AAAI, IEEE DSC, IEEE SCC and GameSec.
He has received support for his research from the: European Commission, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He has been involved, as Principal and co-Investigator, in grants in worth in excess of £20m.
Before his professorship appointment, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Greenwich (2019-2022), Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Surrey (2017-2019), Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton (2014-2017). He also worked as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Security Science and Technology at the Imperial College London, UK (2013-2016), and a postdoctoral researcher at the Theory Group of Queen Mary University of London, UK (2013-2014). Prior to this, he led R&D activities in Ubitech (startup), Surrey Research Park, Guildford, UK after he completed his PhD (security for peer-to-peer mobile networks) at Kingston University London.
Responsibilities within the university
Deputy Head, Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security
Awards
Research Grants
| 2022 – 2025 | Co-I, Horizon Europe, SUN (Greenwich: £412k, total project value: €8M). |
| 2022 – 2025 | P.I., Horizon Europe, TANGO (Greenwich: €256K, total project value: €11M). |
| 2021 – 2024 | Co-I & WP Leader, EPSRC CHAI (Greenwich: £453K, total project value: £2.4M). |
| 2019 – 2023 | P.I. & WP Leader, H2020 SECONDO (Surrey: €255K, total project value: €1.6M). |
| 2020 – 2021 | P.I. & Project Coordinator, NCSC/EPSRC MERIT (Greenwich: £53K, total project value: £63K). |
| 2019 – 2022 | P.I. & WP Leader, H2020 CUREX (Greenwich: £239K, total project value: €5M). |
| 2019 – 2022 | P.I., NCSC DETER PhD studentship (Surrey: £115K). |
| 2018 – 2019 | P.I. & WP Leader, H2020 CUREX (Surrey: £50k). |
| 2018 – 2019 | P.I. & WP Leader, H2020 SPEAR (Surrey: €284K, total project value: €3M). |
| 2015 – 2018 | Co-I, H2020 SESAME (Brighton: €332K, total project value: €7.5M). |
| 2015 – 2017 | Co-I, H2020 VISION (Brighton: €392K, total project value: €2.7M). |
Knowledge Exchange Grants
| 2021 – 2022 | P.I., NCSC, Security Economics for the Connected Place Supply Chains (Greenwich: £50K). |
Recognition
Grant evaluator
EPSRC (since 2020); UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (since 2022); National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (since 2021); Latvian Council of Science (since 2021); and Swiss National Science Foundation (since 2023).
Advisory Groups & Memberships
Advisory Committee Member, Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec); Advisory board H2020 SECANT and H2020 SPIDER; Senior IEEE member (2021-2023); and fellow of the Research Institute in Science of Cyber Security (2021).
Journal editorships
Associate editor: IET Information Security (2021-2022).
Guest editor: Hindawi, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (2021); MDPI Games (2020); and MDPI Sensors “Advances in Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things” (2023).
Invited talks
University of Delft “Research of the Cyber Risk Lab” (2021) & University of Surrey “AI-driven cybersecurity for smart homes” (2022).
Research / Scholarly interests
Research topics
- Cyber and Privacy Risk Management
- Trustworthy AI
Research supervision
Doctoral Students
- Leonard Ikem (Univ. of Greenwich, since 2023) “Optimising Cyber Risk Management in the era of AI”.
- Emily Parsons (Univ. of Greenwich, since 2019) “Cyber Risk Management for IoT-enabled Smart Homes”.
- Robert Pell (external PhD supervisor Univ. of Surrey, since 2019) “Dynamic Protection Framework Against Advanced Persistent Threats in 5G Networks”.
- Antonia Nisioti (Univ. of Greenwich, 2019–2021) “Supporting the Optimal Investigation of Multi-Stage Cyber Attacks”, Moved to SOC Team Lead, Secrutiny, UK.
- Sakshyam Panda (Univ. of Surrey, 2018–2021) “Optimal Strategies for Cyber Security Decision-Making”. Moved to Postdoc position and Lectureship in Cyber Security at Univ. of Greenwich, UK.
- Orestis Mavropoulos (Univ. of Brighton, 2015–2018) “A design and analysis security framework for IoT systems”. Moved to Head of Engineering at Exalens, NL.
- Adeyinka Adedoyin (Univ. of Brighton, 2015–2018) “Predicting fraud in mobile money transfer”. Moved to Lectureship at Univ. of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr Hsueh-Ju Chen (Univ. of Greenwich, Since 2021).
- Dr Caxton Okoh (Univ. of Greenwich, 2019–2021). Moved to Cyber Security Consultant at Moore Morgan.
- Dr Nadia Boumkheld (University of Surrey, 2018–2019). Moved to Postdoc position at KU Leuven.
- Dr Muhammad Usman (Univ. of Surrey, 2018–2019). Moved to Senior Lectureship at Univ. of South Wales.
- Dr Babangida Albaba (Univ. of Brighton, 2015–2016). Moved to Rector position at Katsina State Institute of Technology and Management.
- Dr Vasileios Vasilakis (Univ. of Brighton, 2015–2016). Moved to Lectureship at the Univ. of West London.
Research Interns
- Claire Stretch (Univ. of Greenwich, 2021-2022). Moved to Software Engineer position at Espanaro.
- Cameron Noakes, (Univ. of Greenwich, 2022). Moved to Security Engineer position at Undisclosed.
- Emma Scott (Univ. of Greenwich, 2021). Moved to Software Developer at Deutsche Bank.
- Kokulan Natkunam (Univ. of Greenwich, 2020-2021). Continued PhD at Univ. of Greenwich.
- Adrian Coutsoftides, H2020 CUREX, H2020 SPEAR. Moved to Data Scientist at Enteromics.
- Dmitry Fedorenko, H2020 SPEAR. Moved to Software Developer at Hawk-Eye Innovations.