Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos is a Lecturer in Cyber Security at Edinburgh Napier University, where he received his PhD in Privacy-Preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity in 2022, and an MSc in Cyber Security (Advanced Security and Digital Forensics) in 2019. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (Department of Digital Systems) from the University of Piraeus, Greece. Pavlos is an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET), Certified in Cybersecurity and a Member of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), and a Member of the Blockpass Identity Lab (BIL). Pavlos' research interests focus on cybersecurity, distributed ledger technology, privacy-preserving machine learning, AI security, software security, and related topics. He has over 30 publications in international journals, conferences, and books, and his research has been cited over 1100 times. Additionally, he has been the Principal Investigator on projects exceeding £850,000 in competitive research and innovation funding from EU Horizon, Innovate UK, Scottish Enterprise, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2019, he and a team of PhD students from BIL won awards at the Diffusion Berlin hackathon for their work on "Identity and beyond with Hyperledger" and "Machine Learning in the Decentralized World". Additionally, Pavlos received the "Outstanding Young Person in Cyber" award at the Scottish Cyber Awards 2022. His expertise has led him to found TrueDeploy, which received the "Start Up of the Year" award at the Scottish Cyber Awards 2025. Pavlos has also led, designed, delivered, and supported modules across the undergraduate / postgraduate degrees, including Operating Systems (Module Leader), Security Audit & Compliance, Incident Response & Malware Analysis, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Penetration Testing, Applied Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Computer Systems, and delivered Continuous Professional Development training in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Permissioned Blockchains, and Applied Cryptography.