Carlos Cid

education

I have extensive experience in education, training and mentoring of students and early career researchers in cyber security, at undergraduate, master’s and PhD levels. At Royal Holloway, I taught several courses in its MSc in Information Security programme, and supervised over 100 MSc projects, on a range of topics in cyber security. I also supervised nine completed PhD theses. I currently supervise one PhD student at Simula UiB.
Between 2011 and 2013 I was the Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Mathematics and Information Security. I held the role of director of Royal Holloway’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security from its launch in early 2013 until my sabbatical leave in Sep 2017, and then served as its deputy director from 2018 until 2022. As its founding director, I was responsible for the design and implementation of the original multi-disciplinary training programme of the CDT. I was also part of the EMC of ECRYPT-NET, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Integrated Training Network which trained 15 PhD students across institutions in Europe (2015-2019).
I have also worked with several outstanding post-doctoral researchers at Royal Holloway, Simula and OIST – currently Pierre Briaud at Simula UiB (on post-quantum cryptography), and Shashank Gupta at OIST (on quantum cryptography).
current phd students
former phd students