We have a diverse community of world leading cybersecurity researchers at UCL
Computer Science
Prof George Danezis: privacy, applied cryptography, and distributed systems security
Prof Angela Sasse: usable security, organizational security
Prof Emiliano De Cristofaro: genomic privacy, applied cryptography, on-line propaganda / hate speech / fake news, and internet measurements
Dr Steven Murdoch: privacy, authentication and banking security
Dr Sarah Meiklejohn: cryptocurrencies, underground markets, and cryptography
Dr Nicolas Courtois: symmetric key cryptography and cryptocurrencies
Dr Philipp Jovanovic: applied cryptography, cryptocurrencies, distributed systems, privacy
Dr Marie Vasek: cryptocurrencies, cybercrime, security economics
Prof David Pym: logic, systems modelling, security policy & security economics
Prof Alexandra Silva: verification
Dr James Brotherston: verification, automated reasoning and logic
Prof Peter O’Hearn: verification & testing
Prof Byron Cook: verification
Prof Jade Alglave: verification of CPUs, side-channels dealing with logic and algebra and their applications to the correctness and security of systems, programs, networks, and protocols, including security protocols and organizational modelling;
Prof Brad Karp: networks and distributed systems security
Prof Mark Handley: operating systems, networking and distributed systems security
Dr Emmanuel Letier: requirements engineering & security
Dr Earl Barr: security testing, secure software engineering methodologies, malware and binary analysis
Dr Jens Krinke: security testing, secure software engineering methodologies, malware and binary analysis
Dr David Clark: security testing, secure software engineering methodologies, malware and binary analysis
Prof Tomaso Aste: financial technology, blockchains
Prof Anna Cox: watermarking and copyright protection
Prof Steven Hailes: robotics, infrastructure, Internet of Things, and manufacturing security
Dr Christoph Haase: verification, complexity theory
Dr Mirco Musolesi: machine learning/artificial intelligence for cybersecurity
Dr Licia Capra: computational social science
Dr Stefano Vissicchio: internet routing, reliability and security
The Department of Security and Crime Science
Prof Richard Wortley: situational crime prevention, online child protection and abuse
Prof Kate Bowers: quantitative methods in crime analysis and crime prevention, including hybrid online and offline criminality
Prof Shane Johnson: cyber crime, Internet of Things, policy evaluation, emerging technologies, useable security
Dr Ingolf Becker: Usable cybersecurity, cybercrime, research methods in the cyber space, organisational security, dark marketplaces, banking security, developer-centred security, measurements, behaviour change
Dr Bennett Kleinberg: information prioritisation, decision-making in uncertain environments, applied natural language processing, methods of data science
Dr Toby Davies: network science, notions of 'place' in cyberspace, routine activities in cyberspace, financial crime, fraud
Dr Kevin Chetty: Indoor Sensing and Contextual Awareness using commodity WiFi and IoT Devices
Dr Enrico Mariconti: systems for cybersecurity, in particular the use of AI against malware and cybercrime
Dr Paul Gill: Risk assessment and management of cybercriminality, risk assessment and management of violent extremism, online radicalisation
Prof Ruth Morgan: forensic science, digital evidence, VR/AR/AI/ML, interpretation of evidence.
The Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy
Prof Jeremy Watson: Infrastructure security, building systems security, and the Internet of Things
Prof Madeline Carr: Global politics of cybersecurity, international relations, power and innovation policy, cyberwar and cyber norms, national cyber security strategies, cyber risk assessment in boards, cyber security policy, Internet of Things
Dr Irina Brass: Standards and regulation of digital and telecommunications, cyber security, Internet of Things, connected autonomous vehicles
Dr Leonie Tanczer: Cybersecurity, emerging technologies, Internet of Things, gender and tech, tech abuse, mental health, hacking, hacktivism, censorship, surveillance
The Department of Physics
Prof Jonathan Oppenheim: quantum information theory, applications to secure communications, quantum computing
Prof Simone Severini: quantum computation, cryptography and security, quantum information theory
Dr Toby Cubitt: quantum computation, cryptography and security, quantum information theory
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Prof David Shipworth: energy security, smart metering, and smart grid infrastructure resilience