Prof. Carsten Maple is the Principal Investigator of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at the University and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG. He is also a co-investigator of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity where he leads the field of Transport and Mobility and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, where he is a principal investigator on a USD 5 million project developing trustworthy national digital identity to enable financial inclusion. Carsten has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers, and his research has attracted millions of pounds in funding from research councils, government, charities, and industry from around the world.