George Giamouridis 

George Giamouridis received his B.Sc. degree (upper second class) in Software and Data Systems in 2020 from the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece and his M.Sc. degree (first class) in Computer Science in 2021, from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. After his B.Sc. graduation, he received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), for being graduated with the highest degree of the class of 2016 from the University of Piraeus.

In 2021, he started working as a Ph.D. researcher in the Cyber Security Research Group at University of Southampton, conducting research related to blockchain and cybersecurity topics.

From the beginning of his academic career he was an active university member who built upon his interest in a number of ways. In 2016, he joined the IEEE University of Piraeus student branch committee as a personal relation manager, while in 2018 he elected as the branch’s chairman. In 2018, he established his own academic community called Blockchainers. From 2019-2020 he was a member of the Systems Security Laboratory research team at University of Piraeus where he was working on the extension of a recently published work of the research lab: Michail Bampatsikos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos, “BARRETT BlockchAin  Regulated REmote aTTestation.” in Proc. Web Intelligence 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2019. In 2021, he joined the Cambridge Blockchain Society committee as a lead developer. In 2022, he started his collaboration with the Decentralized Society at University of Southampton, delivering talks related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.