Marko Hölbl is an Associate Professor at UM’s Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research covers cybersecurity and privacy broadly, ranging from cryptography to user aspects of information security and privacy. He holds a professorship for several courses on the topic of cybersecurity. He is an active member and secretary-general of the CEPIS LSI (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, Legal and Security Issues special interest network), a member of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), WG6: SRIA and Cyber Security Technologies and executive board member of the National Cybersecurity Group with the national Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia. He was organizing or program chair of many international conferences, the latest being ADBIS 2019, IFIP SEC 2020, EJC 2023, and IFIP SEC 2025. He was the institutional coordinator of the H2020 project CyberSec4Europe and is currently partner coordinator on the DIGITAL project AKADIMOS and on an ESA project PQC Key Manager. He is or was involved in several Erasmus+ projects: ATHENA - Advanced Technology Higher Education Network Alliance; Cyber F-IT - Cyber Security: Training Students and Scholars for the Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies in Research and Studies for Internationalisation; TechWhiz - Sign Language Dictionary of Technical Terms for Education; DiT4LL - Digital Technologies for Lecturing and Learning, etc.