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Education

MSc Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, The University of Sheffield (UK), 2021
BEng (Hons) Software Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) + Reutlingen University (Germany, Erasmus +), 2020

March 2022 - Current: Scientific Researcher
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Duties: Investigating adversarial attacks against learning-based methods, within the context of critical infrastructure such as smart grids.
- Supervisor: Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer
Mar 2021 - May 2021: Threat Intelligence Researcher
- IMDEA Software Institute (Madrid, Spain - Remote)
- Duties: Part-time internship at the IMDEA Software Institute to work on the development of a Cyber Threat Intelligence platform.
- Supervisor: Prof. Juan Caballero
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020: Front-End Software Developer
- Grobotic Systems (Sheffield, UK - Remote)
- Duties: Summer Internship. Development of a dashboard for graphical representation of environmental parameters with Angular and Open Source libraries.
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019: Software Engineer
- Daimler AG (Stuttgart, Germany)
- Duties: 6-months internship at Mercedes-Benz Cars. R&D department, area: Connected Car (Location-Based Services). Agile Development of prototypes with Node.js/PHP. Development and implementation of a Monitoring Tool for distributed applications.

Technical Program Committee member for CyberHunt (co-located with IEEE BigData 2024), ARTMAN (co-located with ACSAC 2024), STRAI (co-located with ARES 2025), AISec (Top Reviewer award) and ARTMAN (co-located with ACM CCS 2025), ICCWS 2026, AAAI-AIA 2026, and Artifact Evaluation Committee for USENIX Security 2025.
Invited to a Dagstuhl Seminar on “Explainable AI in Energy and Critical Infrastructure Systems” (2026)
Elected Doctoral Candidates’ Representative 2025 - Representing around 100 researchers