Dr. Hector Marco-Gisbert, BSc (Hons) in Computer Engineering, MSc in Industrial Computing and Control Systems and PhD in Engineering in Computer Science, Cybersecurity. Initially, he participated in several research projects where the main goal was to develop an hypervisor for the next generation of space crafts for the ESA (European Space Agency). He extend the scope of the projects by including security aspects. After more than 6 years of experience in virtualisation, he shifted deeper to Cybersecurity making substantial contributions to the Linux kernel, Glibc, GRUB and other open software projects. Since then, he has accumulated more than 5 years of experience in low level Cybersecurity receiving awards and recognitions from Google, Packet Storm Security and IBM for his security contributions. Currently, he is lecturer in Cybersecurity and Virtualisation at the University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, UK.
