Faculty and Security Science Fellows

Faculty

• Professor Deeph Chana

  

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  Professor Deeph Chana Professor of Practice

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  Professor Deeph Chana is Managing Director for NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic's (DIANA) and prior co-director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology.

• Cathy Mulligan

  

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  Cathy Mulligan Advanced Research Fellow

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  Cathy is an interdisciplinary researcher with a strong background in digital technologies for sustainability and resilience. She has held Fellowships with the World Economic Forum for several years and was an Expert member of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Cathy holds a Master’s in Engineering for Sustainable Development and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  

• Dr Gareth Tear

  

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  Dr Gareth Tear Postdoctoral Research Associate

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  Gareth is a researcher in physical security including ballistics and explosives with an emphasis on the use of large data sets and cyber physical systems. His background includes an experimental PhD in ballistics at Imperial College London and co-founder of Synbiosys Ltd., a materials innovation company which patented and licenced a novel armour material.

Security Science Fellows

• Professor PJ Beaghton

  

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  Professor PJ Beaghton Professor of Practice in Computing

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  PJ is a Professor of Practice in Computing and Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His work at ISST focuses on security of financial systems (FinSec). He previously managed a global statistical arbitrage hedge fund for 12 years and before that was a Managing Director and senior quant trader at Salomon Brothers.

• Dr Christoph Beischl

  

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  Dr Christoph Beischl Space Policy and Law Researcher and Consultant, and Associate Deputy Director, London Institute of Space Policy and Law

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  Christoph is a long-standing Space Policy and Law researcher and consultant, as well as the Associate Deputy Director of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law (ISPL). As ISST Security Science Fellow, his focus is on supporting the newly established CARS, addressing space-related aspects of resilience and security, especially from a policy and legal perspective. His further research interests include East Asian, UK and European space policy and law; institutionalised space cooperation; space terminology; responsible behaviour in space; space safety; and the space-related use of AI. He is also a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the German SichTRaum space research network.

• Dr Saira Ghafur

  

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  Dr Saira Ghafur Digital Health Lead at the Institute of Global Health Innovation

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  Saira is the Digital Health Lead at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Security Science Fellow at ISST, and honorary consultant in respiratory medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. Saira has spearheaded Imperial College London's collaboration for healthcare cybersecurity.

• Dr Hamed Haddadi

  

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  Dr Hamed Haddadi Reader in Human-Centred Systems

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  Hamed is a Reader in Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research interests are in User-Centred Systems, IoT, Applied Machine Learning, Privacy, and Human-Data Interaction. He is part of Imperial-X (I-X) where he leads the Privacy and Security Research Area. He is an Academic Fellow of the Data Science Institute and an Associate member of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.

• Professor Christopher Hankin

  

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  Professor Christopher Hankin Professor of Computing

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  Chris is a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, where he was Co-Director until 2019. He was Deputy Principal of the Faculty of Engineering from September 2006 until October 2008. His research is in cyber security, data analytics and semantics-based program analysis.

• Dr John Hassard

  

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  Dr John Hassard Reader in Physics

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  John is Reader in Physics and Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His research interests are varied with particular interest in heavy quark decays. John has started companies in a range of areas, including renewable energy, air pollution analysis and biotechnology.

• Sally Leivesley

  

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  Sally Leivesley Managing Director at Newrisk Limited

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  Sally is a Consultant Security Science Fellow, and works nationally and internationally with academic and other institutions to advance the resilience of infrastructure, institutions, society and the environment against catastrophic risks. Sally trained with the British Home Office as a Scientific Adviser for protection of the public, infrastructure and government under conditions of strategic nuclear attack and has worked with international scientists on catastrophic risk analysis across many sectors of business and industry. Sally has a PhD in Policy and Administration from the University of London, is a Fellow of the RSA, a Member of RUSI, the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists, and the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators. 

• Professor Emil Lupu

  

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  Professor Emil Lupu Professor of Computer Systems

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  Emil leads the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at Imperial College London and is the Deputy Director of the PETRAS IoT Security Research Hub. He serves a Security Science Fellow with the Institute for Security Science and Technology, and heads the Resilient Information Systems Security Group.

• Professor Julie McCann

  

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  Professor Julie McCann Professor of Computer Systems and Vice Dean for Research in the Faculty of Engineering

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  Julie A. McCann is a Professor in Computer Systems with Imperial College London and is currently Vice Dean Research in the Faculty of Engineering. She leads the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering Research (AESE) research group who examine cyber-physical interaction to design better sensor-based systems. She is Deputy Director of PETRAS IoT Cybersecurity Hub, Critical Ecosystems Lead for the Alan Turing Institute, Imperial PI on the EPSRC programme grant Science for Sensor Systems Software and heads up the CHEDDAR Communications Hub. 

• Dr Robbie Murray

  

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  Dr Robbie Murray Lecturer in Photonics

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  Robbie is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Photonics in the Physics Department, developing next-generation mid-infrared light sources for applications across healthcare and security. His work spans nonlinear optics, laser physics, ambient mass spectrometry, and the physics and chemistry behind ultrafast laser-tissue interactions.  His full publication list is on  Google Scholar ,  and he can be found on  Twitter  and  LinkedIn .

   

• Dr William G Proud

  

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  Dr William G Proud Reader in Shock Physics

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  Bill is Reader in Shock Physics at the Department of Physics, and a Security Science Fellow at the Institute. His main research interest is into high strain rate properties of a wide range of materials, both inert and energetic. Bill is the academic course director for the MSc Security and Resilience course.