José Luis works as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Murcia working on the topic of decentralised machine learning for cyberattack detection in Internet of Things (IoT). He worked as a scientific officer at the European Commission, DG JRC (2018-23) where he was involved in some of the most prominent EU cybersecurity initiatives during the last years, such as the JRC Cybersecurity Taxonomy, which was adopted by the official EU Vocabulary in 2021, and the EU Cybersecurity Atlas platform. I have collaborated with ENISA and ECSO on the topics of cybersecurity market analysis.
José Luis received the M.Sc. and Ph.D (“cum laude” and “Best PhD Thesis Award”) from the University of Murcia, where he also worked as a researcher. He also collaborated as a research assistant and worked as an intern at AGT International in Darmstadt. In 2015, I was a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes in Aveiro , in the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at University of Kent in 2023 and in Telefonica Research in 2024. I’ve served as teaching assistant, and as co-advisor of several BSc, MSc and PhD theses, including the thesis that received the award as the best doctoral thesis in cybersecurity from the Spanish Network of Excellence on Cybersecurity Research (RENIC) in 2021. He co-authored several book chapters and more than 60 research papers in top IEEE/ACM journals, and co-edited a book. He has participated in different EU research projects, and served as TPC member/co-chair of several conferences, and guest editor in different journals. He has also contributed to reports from the Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) around standardisation aspects in IoT.
His research has been awarded through a Marie Curie Fellowship, a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (Spanish tenure-track), Leonardo grant (funded by BBVA Foundation) and “Consolidación Investigadora” grant among other awards. José Luis served as expert evaluator for different research agencies, EU bodies, as well as the Science and Technology Office of the Congress of Deputies in Spain. He is a member of several associations, including, IEEE, ACM, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and expert fellow of SPRITE+. His research has been covered by different media, including “El País” newspaper, and ORM radio. His main research interests include Large Language Models (LLMs) in cybersecurity, security and privacy of AI and modelling human factors in cybersecurity.