Dr Xavier Bellekens

Xavier Bellekens (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, MBCS, MIEEE) is the CEO and co-founder of Lupovis.io a cyber-deception spin-out of the University of Strathclyde, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council advising on critical-infrastructures, maritime and naval cyber-security and an Assistant Professor Chancellor’s Fellow in the Institute for Signals, Sensors and Communications with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, His current research interests include critical infrastructure protection, defence as well as cyber deception and deterrence. Xavier is also the Chair of the Blockchain Group, and the Vice-Chair of Cyber-Security Group for IEEE UK and Ireland. He frequently appears in the media to provide commentary to international press on radio, TV and newspapers on major cyber-events.