Team

The people behind the federation

Around 569 person-months of work, carried by teams in nine countries. Expand a unit to see its role in the project and the researchers confirmed so far. Photographs and fuller profiles follow after kick-off, with each person's consent.

Coordination

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

LU · Project & quality management

Runs project coordination and quality assurance across both phases (WP1, WP7), operates the TRL 8 cyber range used for pre-pilot validation, and represents the project toward the ECCC. The coordination team keeps the 14-partner consortium on a <5-day decision cycle.

  • Dr Yuejun Guo

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Qiang Tang

    Team member

  • Jocelyn Aubert

    Team member

Research — algorithms & privacy

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

NL · Federated consensus

Leads the Jury Protocol consensus engine (WP4) and privacy-preserving federated learning; the group publishes at ACM CCS and USENIX Security and supervises a LATTICE PhD on explainable AI.

  • Dr Min Chen

    Lead researcher

University of Aberdeen

UK · Integration & SMPC

Leads platform integration and pre-pilot validation (WP8); advances the DECML consensus framework, secure multi-party computation on the Maxwell HPC cluster, and a simulated SOC for adversarial testing.

  • Dr Raja Akram

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Pradip Sharma

    Team member

University of Liverpool

UK · Digital twins

Leads the digital twin network and cyber range development (WP5) with Barkla HPC computing, and contributes to the W3C FedCM specification.

  • Dr Wanpeng Li

    Lead researcher

  • Prof. Xiaowei Huang

    Team member

Eindhoven University of Technology

NL · SOC research & operations

Combines a 24/7 operational SOC (1M+ events/day on Security Onion) with academic research, and leads the federated SOC pilot.

  • Prof. Sandro Etalle

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Luca Allodi

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Emmanuele Zambon

    Team member

Harokopio University of Athens

EL · Healthcare pilot support

Supports the Greek healthcare pilot and links the project to national NIS2 implementation structures, together with affiliated entity Anadelta Technologies.

  • Prof. George Dimitrakopoulos

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Athanasios Anastasiou

    Team member

  • Dr Elena Politi

    Team member

  • Konstantina Karathanasopoulou

    Team member

Engineering — SMEs & industry

Netcompany

LU · Privacy architecture & AI

Builds the peer-to-peer secure multi-party computation (P2P-SMPC) privacy architecture (WP3) and leads AI threat analysis and automated response (WP9), deploying the Threat Intelligence Knowledge Base across all four pilots.

  • Konstantinos Thivaios

    Lead researcher

  • Olga Segou

    Team member

ITTI

PL · Architecture & AI-NIDS

Leads requirements and the system architecture (WP2) and industrialises AI-based network intrusion detection from prototypes that ITTI reports reach 99.94% accuracy.

  • Prof. Michał Choraś

    Lead researcher

  • Prof. Rafał Kozik

    Team member

  • Dr Marek Pawlicki

    Team member

  • Damian Puchalski

    Team member

Mitigant

DE · Cross-sector pilot

Leads Pilot 1 with its cloud-native adversary emulation platform, coordinating federated detection across telecom, finance, utilities and education.

  • Kennedy Torkura

    Lead researcher

Red Alert Labs

FR · Certification & compliance

Operates an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited EUCC laboratory: validates digital twin fidelity, prepares certification evidence, and carries LATTICE positions into ETSI TC CYBER and CEN-CENELEC JTC13.

  • Yassine El Hadi

    Lead researcher

  • Roland Atoui

    Team member

  • Jean-Yves Bitterlich

    Team member

  • Lea El Khoury

    Team member

Maggioli

IT · Exploitation & dissemination

Leads dissemination, exploitation and sustainability (WP6, WP11) — from the MIRA DT platform to the final impact assessment and commercialisation strategy.

Maggioli joined the consortium in June 2026, after the proposal that lists the other partners' teams, so their researchers are not recorded there. Their roster follows after kick-off.

Digital for Planet

CH · Pilot programme lead

Leads real-world pilot deployment and the TRL 7 demonstration (WP10), and coordinates the Greek healthcare pilot, transferring HORSE 6G threat-intelligence technology.

  • Dr Cristina Pereira

    Lead researcher

  • Dr Massimo Neri

    Team member

  • Dr Valentina Margaria

    Team member

  • Rafael Oliveira Rodrigues

    Team member

Medisys

EL · Hospital deployment

Operates the 250-bed hospital environment of Pilot 2 — where automated response is measured against patient safety, on real clinical infrastructure.

  • Eleftheria Sarri

    Team member

    Operational & national bodies

    Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity

    LU · National CSIRT

    Operates Luxembourg's national CSIRT and the production MISP platform serving 1,000+ organisations; maintains the MISP standard and leads the EU-wide vulnerability intelligence pilot.

    • Alexandre Dulaunoy

      Lead researcher

    • Dr Gerard Wagener

      Team member

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