Sokratis Katsikas
Professor, Director of The Norwegian Centre For Cybersecurity In Critical Sectors @ Norwegian University Of Science And Technology (NTNU)
Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors and Professor with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. In 2019 we was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
In 2021 he was ranked 7th in the security professionals category of the IFSEC “Global influencers in security and fire” list.
He has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings papers. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, he has co-authored/edited 46 books and conference proceedings and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 800 international scientific conferences. He chairs the Steering Committee of the ESORICS Conference, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer).