Aggelos Kiayias#
| Membership Number: | 7428 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kiayias.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2451-1430 |
| X: | @sol3gga |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aggelos-kiayias-40a92712/ |
| Publication Link: | https://dblp.org/pid/47/3682.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor, Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2017 - present Director, Blockchain Technology Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2014 - 2016 Associate Professor (tenured), University of Athens, Greece
- 2008 - 2014 Associate Professor (tenured), Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA (2009- 2014 on leave at University of Athens)
- 2002 - 2008 Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Distributed ledger technology
- Distributed systems
- E-voting
- Cyber security
- Privacy
- Cryptography
Honours and Awards
- 2026 IACR Fellow
- 2025 ACM Fellow
- 2024 Lovelace medal of the British Computer Society
- 2021 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2011 - 2016 European Research Council Consolidator Grant
- 2010 - 2014 Marie Curie ERG Fellowship
- 2008 Public Service Award. Secretary of the State of Connecticut
- 2006 Outstanding faculty of the year award, University of Connecticut - School of Engineering
- 1998 - 2002 Fulbright Fellowship
