Professor Manos Panaousis

Professor Manos Panaousis

Professor of Cyber Security and Deputy Head, Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (Cyber and Privacy Risk Management)

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Professor Manos Panaousis

Professor of Cyber Security and Deputy Head, Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (Cyber and Privacy Risk Management)


Manos (Emmanouil) 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.