Dr Dimitris M. Kyriazanos is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory research group at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (ΙΙΤ) of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD). He received his Diploma in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

He has extensive research work in EU Security Research theme, having contributed in more than 18 successfully completed projects since the start of FP7 and having acted successfully in lead positions, including Project Coordinator. He focuses on applied research in Civil/Climate Security, including transfer to dual-use, engaging in multi-disciplinary collaboration with End Users, stakeholders and SSH experts from respective ecosystems and contributing to the development of a wide range of innovative prototype systems, applications and services, while publishing the results of his work. His research interests include intelligent information and command & control systems with focus on location data analytics and ML applications, critical infrastructure resilience, crisis management systems, sensor fusion, data interoperability, risk based security, hybrid-threat analysis, AI ethics, bias and fairness, data protection, privacy and ethics by design and other topics.

Dr Kyriazanos is IIT’s Education Officer and a member of NCSRD’s Education Council since 2019. He is also NCSRD’s contact point for research in the European Defence Fund (EDF).

He was elected and serves as member of the Attica Prefecture Research & Innovation Council since 2021. Appointed by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Dr Kyriazanos served as a Greek delegate in the Programme Committee for Civil Security R&I in H2020 and Horizon Europe (2019-2023).