Evangelos Markatos

Professor, University of Crete and FORTH, Greece; member of the EU Health Cybersecurity Advisory Board

Evangelos Markatos is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete. He earned his diploma in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, followed by an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. He is the founding head of the Distributed Computing Systems and Cybersecurity Laboratory at FORTH-ICS, where his research focuses broadly on computer systems, with particular emphasis on cyber security, privacy, and cybercrime. He is currently leading or participating in several EU funded projects including C-SOC (Cretan Security Operations Center), ATHENA (An exposition on THe forEign information mAnipulation and interference), HellasQCI (Strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure in the Greek territory against cyber threats), xShare (Expanding the European EHRxF to share and effectively use health data within the EHDS), and XiA (Xpanding Innovation Alliance). He has co-authored over 150 publications in leading conferences and journals, including ACM SOSP, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE HPCA, ACM/IEEE ToN, IEEE JSAC, USENIX Security, and INFOCOM. His work has received over 10,000 citations, with an h-index of 52, according to Google Scholar. Professor Markatos is also a recipient of the prestigious Pichorides Teaching Award, the highest undergraduate teaching honour at the University of Crete.