Dr Kosmas Lazaridis

Dr Kosmas Lazaridis is Programme Leader at the School of Computing, Mediterranean College, Thessaloniki Campus. He previously held a postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Experimental Astrophysics) from the University of Cologne, an MSc in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Hellenic Open University, and a BSc in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published research in international scientific journals and presented at academic conferences, and has extensive teaching experience in informatics, physics, and mathematics at the higher education level. His research interests include experimental astrophysics, scientific data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and IoT cybersecurity, with current work focusing on data-driven intrusion detection in IoT systems and EV charging networks.