Bio

Dr. Dimitra Georgiou is an Adjunct Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher with a scholarship by Greece and European Union for her research project “Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Health systems in Compliance with GDPR” at the Department of Digital Systems in the University of Piraeus under the supervision of Professor Costas Lambrinoudakis. Currently, she is also a member of the Systems Security Laboratory since 2011. She holds a PhD (with Excellence) in Security of Cloud Computing from the University of Piraeus (2018), a MSc in Technology Education & Digital Systems with specialization in Network Oriented Systems from the University of Piraeus (2009) and a B.Sc degree as an Engineer of Computer Science and Telecommunications (2007). She also holds an Education & Teaching Proficiency Certificate (with Excellence) from the University of Crete (2017). She has received three scholarships from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY) and the European Union. The first one is as Postdoctoral Researcher for her research, the second one was as Professor in Vocational Education in order to participate to “Innovative Teaching Methods in Adult Education with Practice” (Erasmus + Program) in Leipzig, Germany and the third one as Erasmus student in order to study at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, in Czech Republic (Erasmus Program). She has successfully completed the intensive programs of Information and Communication Security both of the Vienna University of Technology and the Swedish University of Karlstad. Dr.Dimitra has been actively involved in local organizing committees and international scientific conferences, co-organized by the SSL of University of Piraeus. Her current research interests lie in the areas of: Security and Privacy, GDPR, Compliance, Cloud-based Systems, Data Protection, Health Data. Driven by her thirst for deeper knowledge in the Cybersecurity area and her desire to impart this knowledge to the society, she dedicated her academic career to promote Data Protection and Privacy among students, citizens, and organizations, to develop security policies, specifications and best practices and raise awareness of cybersecurity threats. She is a member of the Women4Cyber initiative and promotes, encourages and supports the participation of women in the field of cybersecurity. She participates actively in the ''Women in Cyber Security''(WiCys) space helping to build a strong cybersecurity workforce with gender equality. In addition to this she is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Women in Engineering and ISACA.