Biographies

Rain Ottis
Rain is a scientist at the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. He previously served as a communications officer in the Estonian Defence Forces, focusing primarily on cyber defence training and awareness issues. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy (BS, Computer Science) and Tallinn University of Technology (MSc, Informatics). He continues his studies at a PhD program in Tallinn University of Technology, where he focuses on politically motivated cyber attack campaigns by non-state actors. His research interests include cyber conflict and politically motivated cyber attacks

Rain Ottis

Eric Adrien Filiol

Eric has been an officer in the French Army for 20 years. He is now head scientist officer and professor in a research lab working for different department in France (justice, police and defense). He holds a PhD in mathematics and computer science, a habilitation thesis in computer science, an engineer diploma in cryptology and has graduated from NATO in InfoOps. His research works relates to computer security (especially computer virology and cryptanalysis) and cyber warfare with the attacker’s mind.

Eric Filiol

Dr. Ken Webb
Ken's first career was in government special operations including command of strategic counter-terrorist, intelligence-gathering and unconventional warfare units. Operations in the international security field then followed where he developed a network of geostrategic relationships. Ken has completed an interdisciplinary PhD level government research project into enhancing national security from terrorist groups and has also been the counter-terrorism research leader for another Government initiative to identify and foster multi-disciplinary research into safeguarding countries from natural, human-caused, or accidental and terrorist acts. His exposure to and research experience is in special operations, information warfare, national security and emergencies, organised crime and counter-terrorism.

Ken Webb

Professor, LTC(G.S), Aki Huhtinen, PhD

Aki is Docent of practical philosophy in the University of Helsinki and Docent of social consequences of media and information technology in the University of Lapland. He is also Docent of information security and information operations in the University of Tampere Technology. Aki works at the Department of Leadership and Military Pedagogy at the Finnish  National Defence University.

Aki Huhtinen

Dr. Marja Härmänmaa
Marja is a university lecturer in Italian at the University of Helsinki. In addition to Critical Discourse Analyses and critical reading, her research interests include Italian literature and culture of the early 20th century. 

Marja Härmänmaa

Marja Vuorinen
Marja is a social historian specializing in the study of elites and power within a theoretical framework of semiotics, text analysis and media studies. Marja holds a Doc. Soc. Sci. from the University of Helsinki

Marja Vuorinen

Saara Jantunen
Saara has studied English language and culture in the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and English philology in the University of Helsinki. Her research interests are language & identity and military discourse.  Jantunen currently works in education.

Saara Jantunen

Josef Demergis
Josef holds a BA(Hons) in International Relations & Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster.  He has obtained a Master degree on War Studies from King’s College London as well as an MSc on E-Commerce from the University of Westminster. He also holds an MRes on Environment Society and Politics from King’s College London. He is currently a PhD Candidate of the University of Macedonia, with a research topic on the conduct of Electronic Foreign policy of the Hellenic State. Mr Demergis has written a variety of articles on subjects mainly dealing with strategy, defence, foreign policy and the use of information technologies. He is a guest lecturer at various military and police schools. He was also employed as a WTI expert of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe Thessaloniki Office.

Josef Demergis

Peeter Lorents
Peeter is heading the R&D Branch in the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and a Professor at the Estonian Business School. He received his PhD in mathematical logic from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University in 1981. Professor Lorents has held numerous academic and leadership positions in Estonia. His research interests include theory of knowledge and intelligence, as well as structural modeling of security and defence.

Christian Czosseck
Christian is scientist at the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. As a soldier in the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) for more than 12 years, he held several Cyber Defense related positions in the German military. Christian graduated first in his class in computer science at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich, and is currently PhD student at the Estonian Business School in Tallinn, looking into organizational and performance aspects of national Cyber Defense.

Dr. Marios Efthymiopoulos

Marios holds a PhD from the University of Crete while a Scholar of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. He is a graduate from the NATO Defence College (NADEFCOL), during his tenure as appointee by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. He holds a Masters Degree from the University of Vienna -The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna- in International Relations. He attended the MSc in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and he also holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations and Politics by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. He has published numerous articles in Greece in relations to NATO policies and foreign policies of Greece. He has also several publications in various countries, namely the UK, Australia, Italy. His research is concentrated on issues of strategic studies and international relations. His latest book is titled -in Greek-: NATO's policies in the 21st century: The need for a renewed Security Concept and the ever lasting NATO-Russia Relations (Sakkoulas A.E Athens Thessaloniki -in Greek- Published date December 2008). Presently Marios is a visiting lecturer at the Dept. of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus.

Marios Efthymiopoulos

Debi Ashenden
Debi is a Senior Research Fellow within the Defence College of Management and Technology at Cranfield University. Prior to taking up this post she was a Managing Consultant within QinetiQ’s Trusted Information Management Department (formerly the Defence Evaluation Research Agency). Specialising in information assurance in general, and risk assessment in particular, other specific areas of interest include building trust for information sharing, governance processes for information assurance and information security awareness. Debi has worked extensively across government, defence and the finance sector as a consultant and her work concentrates on understanding the role of individuals in ensuring that security risks are mitigated. Debi has had a number of articles on information security published, presented at a range of conferences and has co-authored a book for Butterworth Heinemann ‘Risk Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network & Information Assets’. Her current research examines the practice of information operations using discourse analysis.

Debi Ashenden

Updated 8 July 2011