Cristina Alcaraz

Dr. Cristina Alcaraz (F) is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Malaga (UMA). She obtained her PhD in Computer Science by UMA in 2011, and her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science by the same university in 2006. She was awarded two highly competitive postdoctoral fellowships, Marie-Curie in 2012 under the COFUND program and Ramón-y-Cajal in 2015, and was a guest researcher at NIST (2011–2012, USA), visiting later the Royal Holloway (2012–2014 under the Marie-Curie Confund postdoctoral fellowship), UCBM (2017, Rome) and Neurosoft (2019 and 2022, Athens). Dr. Alcaraz, ranked among the top 2% of scientists since 2020-present, has published 95+ papers (with 40 publications indexed in JCR – 20-Q1, 15-Q2, 5-Q3) with interest in the security of cyber-physical systems, Industry 5.0/4.0, Industrial IoT, digital twins and aerospace networks, focusing her research on situational awareness, advanced detection, and resilience. She is IEEE OT Department Editor, Associate Editor of 7+ influential journals on security, such as the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Tran. on Dependable and Secure, Int. Journal of Critical Infr. Protection, International Journal of Information Security, Distributed Ledger Technologies (ACM), IEEE Networking Letters, among others. In the academic context, she regularly teaches cybersecurity related to network security and industrial security, both at the undergraduate and master’s levels. It should also be noted that Dr. Alcaraz received the ‘Special Mention for Teaching Quality’ and the ‘Teaching Excellence’ from the International University of Andalusia in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Dr. Alcaraz also received the recognition of “Women in Homeland Security” from the IEEE SMC TC on Homeland Security in 2021, and she is Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc SIG on Green Digital Twin Network. (https://www.nics.uma.es/cristina-alcaraz/).