Stavros Stavrou

Professor Stavros Stavrou is currently the Dean of Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Open University of Cyprus, a member of the Open University of Cyprus University Council, and the founder and director of the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Research Lab (CTRL). His areas of academic, research and practical expertise span between topics of Telecommunication & Computer Engineering, Communication Networks and Cybersecurity.

Between 1997-2009 he was a member of staff at the University of Surrey (U.K.), whereas faculty member organized and taught in postgraduate and undergraduate courses and lead with his research team numerous research projects funded from research councils, government agencies and industrial organizations. He joined the Open University of Cyprus in 2009 where he developed and managed several MSc programs, including the MSC programme in Wireless Communications and the MSc programme in Computer and Network security. He was also responsible for designing and deploying the first virtual labs of the Open University of Cyprus in 2014/15.

Between 2014-2018 and until the university became autonomous, he was a member of the Governing board of the Open University of Cyprus.

In 2018 he was elected as the 1st Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied sciences. He has been the author/co-author and principal investigator of numerous successful European and national R&D proposals, awarded from research councils, government, and industrial organizations. Some of the funding bodies include: EU (FP6/FP7/Horizon2020), EPSRC, Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (MoD, U.K.), Mobile VCE, Rolls Royce plc, Inmarsat, Research Promotion Foundation, and others.

He has published extensively in relevant peer reviewed publications and contributed towards numerous technical reports. He holds a patent for a cellular phone jammer and has designed and developed several R&D platforms in communication systems, networks, and cybersecurity.

Professor Stavrou is a member of the Executive Academic Board (EAB) of the European Defence and Security College (ESDC), and the 1st elected Chairman of its Cyber group configuration (EAB.CYBER), responsible for coordinating Cyber Security training activities across Europe. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy U.K.