Supervisors

We have a diverse UCL community of world leading cybersecurity researchers.

Computer Science 

• Prof George Danezis: privacy, applied cryptography, and distributed systems security
• Dr Steven Murdoch: privacy, authentication and banking security
• Prof 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 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 (available to supervise from September 2026)
• 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 Ingemar J. Cox: watermarking and copyright protection
• Prof Steven Hailes: robotics, infrastructure, Internet of Things, and manufacturing security
• Prof Arthur Gervais: decentralized finance, blockchain security & privacy, machine learning
• Dr Mirco Musolesi: machine learning/artificial intelligence for cybersecurity
• Dr Licia Capra: computational social science
• Dr Stefano Vissicchio: internet routing, reliability and security
• Dr Shi Zhou: online social media, epidemic spreading, detection of bots & frauds, complex networks, internet routing.
• Dr Dimitrios Kanoulas: robot perception, robot learning, legged robots, mobile manipulators.
• Prof Madeline Carr: Global politic 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 Leonie Tanczer: Cybersecurity, emerging technologies, Internet of Things, gender and tech, tech abuse, mental health, hacking, hacktivism, censorship, surveillance. 
• Dr Mark Warner: online safety, online hate speech, content moderation, misinformation, data deletion, algorithmic harms, usable privacy.

The Department of Security and Crime Science

• 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 Nilufer Tuptuk: cyber-physical systems security, IoT security, transportation systems security, AI-based applied machine learning security, socio-technical security, applications of natural language processing to cybercrime
• 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
• Prof 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
• Dr Irina Brass: Standards and regulation of digital and telecommunications, cyber security, Internet of Things, connected autonomous vehicles
• Dr Jesse Sowell: Operational side of Internet governance, the distinctly transnational, non-state actors that ensure the Internet stays glued together in a secure and stable way.

The Department of Physics

• Prof Jonathan Oppenheim: quantum information theory, applications to secure communications, quantum computing

The Bartlett School of Architecture

• Prof David Shipworth: energy security, smart metering, and smart grid infrastructure resilience (potential co-supervisor)

The Department of Biochemical Engineering

• Dr Darren N. Nesbeth: Synthetic biology, cybersecurity, 'crime harvest', genetic modification, bioterrorism