Nicholas KolokotronisDr. Nicholas E. Kolokotronis is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Cryptography and Security Group at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1995, an M.Sc. in highly efficient algorithms (highest honors) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in cryptography in 2003, both from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2004, he has held visiting positions at the University of Piraeus, University of the Peloponnese, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Open University of Cyprus.During 2002-2004, he was with the European Dynamics S.A., Greece, as a security consultant. He has been a member of working groups for the provisioning of professional cyber-security training to large organizations, including the Hellenic Telecommunications and Posts Commission (EETT). Dr. Kolokotronis has published more than 100 papers in international scientific journals, conferences, and books and has participated in more than 25 EU-funded and national research and innovation projects. In Cyber-Trust, he was the technical coordinator. He has been a co-chair of conferences (IEEE CSR 2021, 2022), workshops (IEEE SecSoft 2019, IEEE CSRIoT 2019, 2020, and ACM EPESec 2020), and special sessions focusing on IoT security. Moreover, he has been a TPC member in many international conferences, incl.IEEE ISIT, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ARES, and ISC. He is currently a Guest Editor in Engineering - cyber security, digital forensics and resilience area of Springer's Applied Sciences Journal (since 2019) and in the Reviewer Board of MDPI's Cryptography journal (since 2020), whereas he has been an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009-17) and a regular reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, incl. IEEE TIFS, IEEE TIT, Springer's DCC, etc. His research interests span the broad areas of cryptography, security, and coding theory. Read More Read Less