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Hi, I am Christos

Christos Dalamagkas

Cybersecurity Researcher

I am a cybersecurity researcher and ICT engineer with experience in the technical management and implementation of Horizon Europe research programes.

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Technical Skills

Experiences

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K3Y Ltd.

Jan 2026 - Present

Sofia, Bulgaria

R&D and Cyber Security.

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Jan 2026 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Researcher for EU-funded programmes: XTRUST-6G, SALUS, CASTOR, ENFORCE, IRONPLAN EDF, SECASSURED, CIPHER, CIRCAT, SecQdevOps.
  • Product Manager & Developer for K3NetOrchestra: A security policy orchestrator enforcing zero-trust by leveraging OpenFlow and Kubernetes/Cilium.
  • Product Manager & Developer for K3CyberRadar: An AI-powered SIEM platform integrating threat detection and vulnerability management.
  • Research topics: Industrial IoT, Cybersecurity, Software Architecture & Development.
Metamind Innovations P.C. (MINDS)

Apr 2024 - Nov 2025

Thessaloniki, Greece

MINDS is the first spin-off of the University of Western Macedonia.

Associate Researcher

Apr 2024 - Nov 2025

Responsibilities:
  • Researcher for EU-funded programmes: D-HYDROFLEX HE, NERO Digital Europe.
  • Product Manager & Developer for the MINDS SDN Controller & Dashboard: An OT SDN solution that leverages OpenFlow to introduce security policies on OT networks.
  • Product Manager & Developer for the MINDS Radar: A SIEM platform based on Wazuh, integrating custom AI-based OT detectors.
  • Research topics: Digitalisation and Cybersecurity on Hydro Power Plants.
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Public Power Corporation S.A.

May 2018 - Nov 2025

Athens, Greece

PPC Group is the largest energy producer and energy retailer in Greece.

Contractor / Researcher

May 2018 - Nov 2025

Responsibilities:
IEK ALFA (IEK ΑΛΦΑ)

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Athens, Greece

IEK ALFA is a vocational school in Greece.

Teacher

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Instructor for the following courses: Computer Networks, Network Security, Mobile Networks, Operating Systems, Data Communications, Network Administration, Object-Oriented Programming (C++), Telecommunications.
  • Lectures available on GitHub: https://github.com/cdalamagkas/cs-lectures-gr
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Education

Democritus University of Thrace
2023 - Now
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Computer Science
Cisco Networking Academy
2017-2018
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
CGPA: 92 out of 100
University of Western Macedonia
2012-2017
M.Eng. in Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
CGPA: 8.2 out of 10
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Extracurricular Activities:
  • Teching Fellow for Computer Networks, Computer and Network Security, Network Design, Event-driven simulation.
  • Video editing for the course “Parallel and Distributed Systems” using MeGUI and Sony Vegas Pro.

Projects and Publications

Design of Market Mechanism for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation on XG-PON
Author Nov 2017

My diploma thesis which was submitted to fulfill the requirements for receiving the M.Eng. in Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.

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SDN Dashboard
Leading Developer Jul 2020 - Present

An innovative Django-based dashboard that provides a user-friendly interface to retrieve, monitor and edit network flows from SDN switches as well as to view the network topology in real time.

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Lectures for the University of Western Macedonia
Author 2020 - 2021

Lectures on SDN/NFV, game theory and smart grids, delivered for the University of Western Macedonia.

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Lectures on Computer Science for Vacational Schools
Author 2018-2019

Lectures on Computer Networks, Cybersecurity, Operating System, Data Communications, Mobile Networks and Telecommunications for Vocational schools. Delivered successfully at IIEK ALFA.

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Network Design ciriculim
Author Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

Author of original educational material and laboratory exercises for the course “Network Design” that involves routing and switching on Cisco and Mikrotik devices.

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NeighborJoining App
Developer Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

Java app that aligns multiple DNA sequences (using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm) and creates their phylogenetic tree, using the Neighbor-Joining algorithm. Fully functional Swing GUI included.

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Dynamic scheduling in TWDM-PONs using game theory
Author 2018

C. Dalamagkas, P. Sarigiannidis, S. Kapetanakis and I. Moscholios, “Dynamic scheduling in TWDM-PONs using game theory”, Optical Switching and Networking, Dec. 2017, DOI:10.1016/j.osn.2017.12.004.

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PAS: A Fair Game-Driven DBA Scheme for XG-PON Systems
Author 2018

C. Dalamagkas, P. Sarigiannidis, I. Moscholios, T. Lagkas and M.S. Obaidat, “PAS: A Fair Game-Driven DBA Scheme for XG-PON Systems”, 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks, and Digital Signal Processing, Jul. 2018, 10.1109/CSNDSP.2018.8471787

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A Survey On Honeypots, Honeynets And Their Applications On Smart Grid
Author 2019

C. Dalamagkas et al., A Survey On Honeypots, Honeynets And Their Applications On Smart Grid," in 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2019. DOI: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2019.8806693.

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Game Theoretic Honeypot Deployment in Smart Grid
Author 2020

P. Diamantoulakis, C. Dalamagkas, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, P. Sarigiannidis, and G. Karagiannidis, “Game Theoretic Honeypot Deployment in Smart Grid,” Sensors, vol. 20, no. 15, p. 4199, Jul. 2020. DOI: 10.3390/s20154199.

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