Marias’ education includes General MBA – Business School of Brighton University, UK and BSc Computer Science – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is currently working on various research projects (a) SPIDER (H2020-SU-DS-2018): A cybersecurity platform for virtualised 5G cyber range services, (b) RAINBOW (H2020-ICT-2019-2): An open, trusted fog computing platform facilitating the deployment, orchestration and management of scalable, heterogenous and secure IoT service and cross-cloud applications, (c) SANCUS (H2020-SU-ICT-2019: An analysis software scheme of uniform statistical sampling, audit and defence processes, (d) 5G-INDUCE (H2020-ICT-2020-2): Open cooperative 5G experimentation platforms for the industrial sector NetApps, and (e) JAUNTY (KA203-B186BA1A): Joint undergaduate courses for smart energy management systems. 

His main research interests are in the area of cybersecurity and mainly focus on intrusion detection, vulnerability research and applied cryptography. He has published more than 20 research papers in international scientific journals, conferences and book chapters, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Access, Computer Networks (Elsevier Publishing) and Internet of Things (Elsevier Publishing). Moreover, he has received two Best Paper Awards in IEEE CAMAD 2019 and IEEE CSR 2021, respectively. He has served as a reviewer for several scientific journals and possesses working experience as a security engineer and software developer. Also, he participates in the Topical Advisory Panel of Electronics (MDPI Publishing). Currently, he is working as a technical manager at K3Y Ltd, coordinating the technical activities of various R&D projects, including H2020 SPIDER, H2020 SANCUS, H2020 5G-INDUCE, H2020 DRYADS, Η2020-MSCA Swiftv2x and JAUNTY. He has also worked as a research associate at the ITHACA Lab of the University of Western Macedonia, participating in several national and European funded research projects, such as H2020 SPEAR, H2020 SDN-microSENSE, H2020 TERMINET, H2020 EVIDENT and H2020 ELECTRON. Moreover, he is co-founder of MetaMind Innovations P.C., the first spin-off of the University of Western Macedonia. Finally, he is a member of IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece. 

He is experienced in ad hoc communications and embedded control and firmware development for industrial, biomedical and aerospace applications. His research interests include UAV swarms, energy-aware routing and ad hoc networking. He is currently working on various research projects (a) SPIDER (H2020-SU-DS-2018): A cybersecurity platform for virtualised 5G cyber range services, (b) RAINBOW (H2020-ICT-2019-2): An open, trusted fog computing platform facilitating the deployment, orchestration and management of scalable, heterogenous and secure IoT service and cross-cloud applications, (c) SANCUS (H2020-SU-ICT-2019: An analysis software scheme of uniform statistical sampling, audit and defence processes, (d) 5G-INDUCE (H2020-ICT-2020-2): Open cooperative 5G experimentation platforms for the industrial sector NetApps, and (e) JAUNTY (KA203-B186BA1A): Joint undergaduate courses for smart energy management systems.

He is experienced as an Information System manager and as a lecturer in higher education. Furthermore, he is experienced in determining strategy consulting services regarding social media web pages & platforms. Currently he is also a student at the University of Western Macedonia, attending the postgraduate program MBA in Management Information Systems. He is currently working on various research projects, including (a) H2020-SU-DS-2018 (SU-DS01-2018), SPIDER: a cyberSecurity Platform for vIrtualiseD 5G cybEr Range services, (b) H2020-ICT-2019-2 (ICT-15-2019-2020), RAINBOW: An open, trusted fog computing platformfacilitating the deployment, orchestration and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IoT services and cross-cloud applications, (c) H2020-SU-ICT-2019 (SU-ICT-02-2020), SANCUS: analysis software scheme of uniform statistical sampling, audit and defence processes, (d) H2020-ICT-2020-2 (ICT-41-2020), 5G-INDUCE: Open cooperative 5G experimentation platforms for the industrial sector NetAppsand (e) JAUNTY (KA203-B186BA1A): Joint undergaduate courses for smart energy management systems.

Currently she is working on SANCUS (H2020-SU-ICT-2019: An analysis software scheme of uniform statistical sampling, audit and defence processes, and on 5G-INDUCE (H2020-ICT-2020-2): Open cooperative 5G experimentation platforms for the industrial sector NetApps. 

His main research interests include modelling of electric power systems and machine learning applications. Ηe joined K3Y Ltd as an AI researcher/engineer since 2022. Georgios will participate in SANCUS and TRUSTEE. 

His main interests are Data Science and Machine Learning / AI, Software Engineering (Python), Biomedical Informatics, as well as Digital Transformation and STEM in general. He joined K3Y Ltd as an AI Engineer/Researcher in 2022 where he is currently working on various research projects, including TRUSTEE, TREEADS, 5G-INDUCE and JAUNTY. 

His main research interests are in the area of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, natural language processing and sentiment analysis. He holds a Pan-Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award in the field of Information Technology.