Dr. Essam Ghadafi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and serves as the Director of the MSc in Cyber Security programme at Newcastle University.

He is actively engaged in interdisciplinary research in the field of Cyber Security, with a particular focus on Cryptography, Information Security, and Privacy. I am the director of the MSc in Cyber Security and a member of the PhD progression panel. Prior to joining Newcastle University, he was a senior lecturer at UWE Bristol and previously worked with Prof Jens Groth as a research associate in the Information Security Group at University College London from 2015 to 2017.