Dr. Naghmeh Moradpoor is an Associate Professor of
Cybersecurity in the School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built
Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. She is a Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Certified Ethical Hacker, and has
been an active researcher since 2009.Naghmeh's research expertise includes the security analysis
and countermeasures for Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure
Protection, the detection and classification of various cybersecurity attacks,
data analytics and decision support for cybersecurity, IDs/IPs for IoT,
cyberbullying detection and prevention, inter-vehicular trust in autonomous
vehicles using Distributed Ledger Technology, and cybersecurity for Electric
Vehicles and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.In recognition of her contributions, Naghmeh was awarded
Outstanding Woman in Cyber at the Scottish Cyber Awards in 2017. She was also
nominated for the Best Supervisor for Research category by ENSA’s
Student-Nominated Excellence Awards in 2021 and 2024. Additionally, Naghmeh is
ranked among the top 2% (top one million) most-cited authors worldwide,
according to the AD Scientific Index 2023.
She is an Academic Editor for the Journal of Security and
Communication Networks, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ambient
Intelligence and Humanized Computing, an Academic Editor for IET Information
Security, and a Guest Editor for Computational Intelligence and Network
Security.
Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a visiting professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 300 papers in scientific magazines and conferences.
