Dr Chris Lewington

Dr Chris Lewington is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security, Chair of the School Research Ethics Committee, and joined the team in June 2019 after a long and successful industrial career spanning the finance, telecommunications, defence and biotechnology sectors. Chris has held a variety of leadership, senior management, and development roles from IT director through to programmer and has many years of practical software engineering experience.

Chris's early academic research focused on Formal Methods, followed by a broad range of industrial research projects including Intelligent Collaborative Agents, Network Computing and distributed technologies based on the CORBA standard. His current academic interests focus on post-quantum cryptography, ransomware, zero-trust architectures, internet regulation, questions of ethics, bias and the law in computer science (particularly in relation to data privacy), security applications of artificial intelligence, social engineering and open source intelligence (OSINT).

Chris holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Essex, a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Hertfordshire, an LLB Law degree from the University of London, and is currently studying for a Masters degree in Advanced Security and Digital Forensics with Edinburgh Napier University, which is accredited by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). He is also a Certified Java Professional at Programmer, Developer and Part 1 Architect levels.