Director of the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (NORCICS), Professor with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece
email: skatsikas@upatras.gr
Short CV
Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1982; the Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, in 1984; and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1987. In 2019 we was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (NORCICS) and Professor with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. In the past, among others, he has been the Rector of the Open University of Cyprus (2018-2020); Rector and Vice Rector of the University of the Aegean, Greece (1997-2006); General Secretary of Telecommunications and Posts of the Hellenic Government (2009-2012); Chair of the National Council of Education of Greece (2013-2015); Chair of the Council for Higher Education of Greece (2013-2015); Member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for the Security and Privacy of Communications (2008-2009); Chair of the Steering Committee of the EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme (2015-2019); and member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for the Quality and Accreditation of Higher Education (2006-2008). In May-June 2023 he served as Minister of Digital Governance in the interim (caretaking) government of the Hellenic Republic. In 2006 he was invited to join the pool of expert evaluators of the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association. In 2008 he was “promoted” to evaluation team chair and between 2011 and 2019 he was sitting on the Programme Steering Committee. He served as the Chair of the Programme Steering Committee between 2015 and 2019. Within the EUA IEP framework he has evaluated more than 20 higher education institutions in Slovakia, Portugal, Turkey, Romania, Ireland, Montenegro, Lebanon, North Macedonia, the Czech Republic, and Poland. He has carried out, individually or as a chair/member of a team, several evaluations of Universities, and of individual study programmes at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level, in Greece, Romania, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Georgia. In 2023 he was listed in the Stanford University list of the top 2% most cited scientists worldwide. 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 52 books and conference proceedings and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 900 international scientific conferences, including GLOBECOM 2006, 2012, and 2015. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the ESORICS Conference (chair 2017-2023) and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer).
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