Dr. Gritzalis is a Professor of Cybersecurity with the Dept. of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Greece. He also serves as Director of the Postgraduate Programme on Information Systems Security and Development, as well as Director of the Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection (INFOSEC) Lab. Prof. Gritzalis holds academic degrees in Mathematics (BSc, Univ. of Patras, GR), Computer Science (MSc, City University of New York, USA) and Information Systems Security (PhD, Univ. of the Aegean, GR).
He has served as Associate Rector for Research, Associate Rector for Financial Affairs and President of the Life-Long Learning Center of AUEB. Also, he has served as Associate Commissioner of the Greek Data Protection Commission and as the President of the Greek Computer Society. He is the Academic Editor of the Computers & Security journal (Elsevier), and the Scientific Editor of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier).
In his academic career, spanning over 35 years, his research and consulting services have been extensively funded by more than 100 public and private organizations, including the European Commission, EU Joint Research Center, ENISA, Europol, European Standardization Committee (CEN), Hellenic Ministries, Gas & Oil industries (BP, EKO, DEPA), Hospitals, Athens Stock Exchange, Banks (Central Bank, National Bank of Greece, Piraeus Bank), Vodafone, OTE, as well as several consultancy and ICT firms.
Prof. Gritzalis has published more than 250 research papers in international academic journals and scientific conferences. His current research interests focus mainly on Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, IT Audit, Risk Assessment, and Advanced Persistent Threats.