Biography
José Luis Hernández-Ramos is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Murcia (Spain) and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–2025), focused on decentralized machine learning for cyberattack detection. He previously served as a Scientific Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (DG JRC, 2018–2023), contributing to flagship EU cybersecurity initiatives, including the JRC Cybersecurity Taxonomy (adopted into the official EU Vocabulary in 2021), the EU Cybersecurity Atlas, and technical work supporting EU policy and standardization—such as joint JRC–ENISA analyses linked to the Cyber Resilience Act.
He holds a PhD “cum laude” (Best PhD Thesis Award, 2016) and has authored 70+ research publications, co-edited Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things, and contributed to major EU R&D projects and registered open-source software assets. In 2025, he was selected as an expert for European Commission (DG CNECT) studies on emerging and critical digital technologies (2028–2040 horizon), and he has served as an evaluator/expert for the European Commission, national research agencies, and NATO-related programmes. He is an active member of leading professional networks (IEEE, ACM, MCAA, ELLIS, IFIP TC11 WG12, SPRITE+) and a founding member of the IEEE TRUST-IoT Working Group.