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As an Associate Professor in Strategic and Security Studies, I have more than twenty years of experience designing courses and teaching military officers, civil servants and university students on subjects pertaining to international and maritime security, strategy and transnational security threats with emphasis on terrorism.
I was a Visiting Professor in Terrorism at the NATO School in Oberammergau for five years and Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford University. In 2009, I set up the first ever blended learning International MA programme in Applied Strategy and International Security to command-level staff at the Hellenic National Defence College (HNDC) -equivalent to the Royal College of Defence Studies- in Athens. I have supervised more than four hundred MA dissertations and a number of Doctoral students on strategic and security issues. I have published three monographs as well as a number of academic papers in a number of refereed and policy practitioner journals such as Defence Studies, Defence and Security Analysis, European Security, Mediterranean Quarterly, Central Asian Survey, Contemporary Security Policy, Mediterranean Politics, NATO Open Publications, Naval Review, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Conflict Security Research Series-Sandhurst, and Contemporary Review. Iam currently editing a book titled 'Reshaping the Battlefield: The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare, which will be published by Routledge.
As a Director of the Centre for Sea Power and Strategy (CSS), I have established strong links with professional and educational networks in the field of maritime security and strategy, which has spawned a number of collaborations and partnerships with NATO Maritime Command (MARCOM), Airbus Defence and Space UK, BAE systems, University of Bundeswehr Munich, German Ministry of Defence, NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre (NMIOTC), United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network initiative, Hellenic National Defence College and Hellenic Ministry of Defence.
To this end, in the last five years, I have personally organised in collaboration with MARCOM, Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Defence Industry and the Hellenic National Defence College, a number of national-level conferences such as on ‘Deterrence and Defence: Allied Operational Dilemmas and Integrated Responses’ ‘Hybrid Warfare’. ‘Resurgent Russia’, ‘Application of Sea Power for NATO in the 21st century’ and ‘Mediterranean Security Threats’, (for more details see http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/dcss/category/events/
As a Director of the CSS, I have implemented the accreditation of a number of professional courses from the British Government, including the Cyber Security Awareness Course for Seafarers (first British University to receive recognition), from Maritime Coast Guard Agency; Port Facility Security Officer Course, Department for Transport; Terrorism and Cyber Security Awareness Course with certified training by National Cyber Security Centre.
Council Member of the Society of Maritime Industries, Defence & Security Member. https://www.maritimeindustries.org/specialist-groups/maritime-defence-security-group
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
External Examiner and Accreditor (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs) for the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education, Greek Ministry of Education
Supevised over 400 Master's dissertations as well as a number of PhD students focussed on security and strategy.
International Security & Strategy
Maritime Security threats
Terrorism & Cyber Terrorism
Transnational Security Threats
MA Programme Leader for Applied Strategy and International Security
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper (not formally published)