Vincent Lenders is a Full Professor of Cybersecurity and an FNR PEARL Chair at the University of Luxembourg, where he leads the Systems and Network Security (SNS) Group at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT).
He is the co-founder and Chairman of the Executive Boards of the OpenSky Network and Electrosense associations, which foster open data and collaborative sensing in wireless communication systems. He also serves as a Member of the AI Scientific Panel of the European Commission.
Prior to joining academia, he served as the founding Director of the Swiss Cyber-Defence Campus and headed the Cyber Security and Data Science Division at armasuisse Science and Technology, the research and technology centre of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence.
He holds a Ph.D. (2006) and a Master's degree (2001) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University in 2007. His research lies at the intersection of cybersecurity, wireless networked systems, and artificial intelligence, with a strong focus on application-driven research and technology transfer. His work spans over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed to operational systems in defense and critical infrastructure.
He has received multiple best paper awards at IEEE WONS 2012, DFRWS EU 2015, ACM CPSS 2015 & 2021, and DASC 2015, as well as the Swiss Federal Department of Defense Security Award in 2011. Vincent is an active member of IEEE and ACM, serves on the expert jury of the Swiss Economic Forum, and holds professional certifications including CISA, CISM, CRISC (ISACA) and CISSP (ISC2).
Dedicated to education and mentorship, Vincent has supervised over 100 Master's and Ph.D. students from ETH Zurich, EPFL, Oxford, Princeton, KU Leuven, and more. From 2012–2016, he served as Industrial Director at the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC), and from 2020–2025, he chaired the Swiss CYD Fellowship program.
If you are a student interested in a Master thesis, semester project, or internship, please consult the SNS project page and contact the researcher listed on the topic that interests you most.
If you are looking for a PhD or Postdoc position, I regularly advertise open positions through the University's job portal. If no positions are currently listed but you are interested in working with me, you are welcome to send an email describing your research interests and background.
Please note that I receive many emails every day and, while I carefully read all of them, I am not always able to reply individually. I appreciate your understanding.