Nathan Clarke is a Professor of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at the University of Plymouth. He is also an adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research interests reside in the area of information security, biometrics, forensics and intrusion detection and has over 250 journal papers, conference papers, books, edited books, book chapters and patents. 

He is the past Chair of the IFIP TC11.12 Working Group on the Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (2013-2019) and is the co-chair of the long standardising HAISA series of symposiums. Prof Clarke is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the British Computing Society (BCS), a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, a senior member of the IEEE. 

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (FCIIS)
• Fellow of the British Computing Society (FBCS)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SMIEEE)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)

• Professional Member representative on BCS Council (2022-2025)
• Chair, IFIP TC11 Working Group 11.12 Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (2013-2019)
• Member, IFIP TC11 Working Group 11.12 on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (2010-)
• Member, IFIP TC11 Working Group 11.1 on Information Security Management
• Member, IFIP TC11 Working Group 11.6 on Identity Management

External Research Council Grant Reviewing:

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
• National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
• National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada
• Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
• Technology Foundation STW, The Netherlands
• Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Belgium
• The Royal Society, United Kingdom
• European Research Council
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus

Completed PhD Project Supervision as Director of Studies:

1. Dr Fudong Li, Intrusion Prevention and Detection for Mobile Systems (2012)
2. Dr Shuhaili Talib, Personalising Information Security Education (2013)
3. Dr Hataichanok Saevanee, Enhancing Authentication over a Touch Screen Interface (2014)
4. Dr Sevasti Karatzouni, Non-Intrusive Continuous User Authentication for Mobile Devices (2014)
5. Dr Mahmood Al Fahdi, Automated Digital Forensics & Cybercrime Profiling (2016)
6. Dr Christopher Kosmas, Secure tracking system for next generation CIT products (2014)
7. Dr Salam Ketab, E-Invigilator of E-Assessment (2017)
8. Dr Saad Alqahtany, A Forensically-Enabled Cloud Computing Architecture (2017)
9. Dr Gaseb Alotibi, Behavioural Monitoring for Network Communications (2017)
10. Dr Abdulwahid Al Abdulwahid, Federated Authentication using the Cloud (Cloud Aura) (2017)
11. Dr Athanassios Triantafyllidis, eLearning Web-Based Applications: Enhancing Productivity and Commercial Value (2017)
12. Dr Burhan Al-Bayati, Continuous Identity Verification in Cloud Computing Services (2018)
13. Dr Hussam Mohammed, Digital Forensic Analysis of Big Data (2018)
14. Dr Manal Alohali, Information Security Risk Assessment for The General Public (2018)
15. Dr Leith Abed, Securing Cloud Storage by Transparent Biometric Cryptography (2019)
16. Dr Hiba Al-Kawaz, Forensic Facial Recognition of Multimedia Files (2019)
17. Dr Hind Al-Obaidi, Transparent Authentication Utilising Gait Recognition (2019)
18. Dr Timibloudi Stephen Enamamu, Bioelectrical User Authentication (2019)
19. Dr Shahlaa Mashhadani, Image Forensics (2019)
20. Dr Abdulrahman Alruban, Applying biometrics to digital forensics (2020)
21. Dr Dany Joy, An Intelligent Network Forensic Analyzer (2020)
22. Dr Fayez Alotaibi, Improving Cyber Security Management and Awareness for Home Users (2020)
23. Dr Aziz Alshehri, A Privacy Enhancing Framework for Mobile Devices (2020)
24. Dr Abdulaziz Altamimi, Author Identification of Text Limited Messages (2020)
25. Dr Neamah Al-Naffakh, Wearable Computing and Transparent Authentication (2020)
26. Dr Georgios Vranopoulos, Tackling Big Data Variety using Metadata (2022)

Completed PhD Project Supervision as Supervisor:

1. Dr Shukor Razak, A Two-Tier Intrusion Detection System for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2007)
2. Dr Vassilis Dimopoulos, Effective Information Assurance with Risk Management (2007)
3. Dr Gina C Tjhai, Anomaly-Based Correlation of IDS Alarms (2011)
4. Dr Tarik Ibrahim, Improving Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Response (2011)
5. Dr Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat, Incident Prioritisation for Intrusion Response Systems (2012)
6. Dr Garrett Smiley, Investigating the Role of Multibiometric Authentication on Professional Certification E-Examination (2013)
7. Dr Witold Thaul, The support of learning processes via personal knowledge management Education (2013)
8. Dr Frank Doelitzscher, Security and Privacy for Cloud Computing (2014)
9. Dr Chris Hocking, Authentication Aura (2015)
10. Dr Hanna Shauchenka, Marketing of virtual Universities (Atlantis University) – Application of Quantitative Analysis (2015)
11. Dr Thomas Rübsamen, Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing (2016)
12. Dr Mutlaq Alotaibi, User's behaviour with Organisational Information Security Policies (2017)
13. Dr Saud Nejr Alotaibi, Taxonomy of Application-Based Behaviour Authentication for Mobile Security (2019)
14. Dr Reem Alkanhel, Designing a usable security framework for IoT (2019)
15. Dr Samah Alshathri, Energy Consumption Optimisation in Cloud Computing Data Centres (2020)
16. Dr Stefan Frey, Autonomic SLA Management as a Service (2020)
17. Dr Faisal Shaman, User Traffic Profiling in Computer Networks (2020)
18. Dr Hendrik Kuijs, A Platform as a Service Framework for Ambient Assisted Living Services (2023)
19. Dr Thomas Rieger, Making and Success Factors for the Use of Big Data & Analytics Methods and Technologies (2023)
20. Dr Holger Gantikow, Secure High Performance Computing provided as PaaS (2023)

Module delivery 

• COMP3011 Ethical Hacking*
• COMP3012 Digital Forensics & Malware Analysis*
• COMP5003 Ethical Hacking*
• COMP5004 Digital Forensics & Malware Analysis*
• PUSL3132 Ethical Hacking

Previous module delivery: 

• CNET115 Computer & Information Security* 
• CNET117 Digital Forensics*
• CNET335/522 Cybercrime & Forensic Investigation* 
• SOFT230 Remote Data Access Technology 
• CNET221 Network Security 
• CNET232/525 Systems Security* 
• COMP212 Software Engineering and High Level Programming 
• COMP223 High Level Programming 
• CNET338/538 Security for Mobile Systems*
• CNET336/532 Cryptography & Applications* 
• CNET520 Applications of Security 
• CNET531 Intrusion Prevention, Detection & Response* 
• SEC101 Introduction to Computer Security*
• SEC102PP Cybersecurity Essentials*
• SEC201 Digital Forensic Investigation*
• SEC104 Cybersecurity & Networks*
• SEC305/505 Digital Forensic Investigation*
• COMP1002 Cyber Security & Networks*

*Developed module