The Lecturers
The people behind the Cyber Policy and Cyber Law microcredential are all top level experts in the cyber field. The programme manager is Sander Maripuu, head of the Cyber Policy Centre in the University of Tartu. Mr. Maripuu is also the contact for all further questions regarding the Cyber Policy and Cyber Law microcredential programme and the research centre.
The training joins three domains: politics, law and cybersecurity. It is built on research based knowledge from three institutes from the University of Tartu: Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, the School of Law and the Institute of Computer Sciences.
Mari Seeba has been a Ph.D. student at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science since 2020. She is also a leading cybersecurity expert in the Estonian Information System Authority security standard development team. In 2019, she defended her MA thesis on the specification of an ISMS management tool integration with a workflow management tool. Her Ph.D. research topic is the development of information security standards on the example of the Estonian use case, particularly how to measure and compare organization security. Her expertise is information security management standards, risk analysis, developing security measures, and ISMS auditing. Previously, she was a project manager and IS auditor for security-related projects in the Estonian research and development company Cybernetica AS for almost 15 years.
Mubashar Iqbal obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tartu (UT), Estonia. Currently, he holds the position of lecturer of information security at the same university. He is an esteemed member of the renowned information security research group (https://infosec.cs.ut.ee) at UT, where he actively engages in impactful research and teaching endeavours. His research interests revolve around the security aspects of blockchain systems, with a particular emphasis on the secure development of decentralized applications. His research also specializes in the analysis, modelling, and security risk management of centralized and decentralized applications and cyber-physical systems (CPS).
Raimundas Matulevicius received a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is currently a Professor of information security at the University of Tartu and leads its Information Security Research Group. He has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and workshops. He is the author of the book Fundamentals of Secure System Modeling (Springer, 2017). His research interests include information security and privacy, security risk management, security and privacy by design, and model-driven security in intelligent infrastructure, blockchain, and information systems. He has been involved in the SPARTA H2020 project, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership programs CyberPhish, BlockNet, and BLiss. Currently, Matulevicius is the principal researcher in CHESS (EU Horizon Europe) and CHAISE (Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance program) projects.
Liisi Adamson is the Programme Director of the IT Law Programme at the University of Tartu (UT), School of Law. She also teaches courses on cyber defence and international law in the IT Law Programme and has been doing so for the past eight years. In her prior positions, she served as a project manager, law researcher at the NATO CCD COE, and researcher at the Cyber Norms Programme founded at Leiden University. Liisi holds a BA in Law (LL.B) and an MA (LL.M.) in Law from UT. She also earned a MA (LL.M.) in Comparative and International Law from Helsinki University, Finland and an MA in Information Technology Law (LL.M.) from UT. She is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the School of Law, UT, where her dissertation focuses on international law and cyber defence issues.
Ambassador Shota Gvineria works in Baltic Defence College in the Faculty, of Defence and Cyber Studies, developing and teaching modules, electives, and classes in the area of national security, defence and cyber studies, acting as a source of expertise in the area of hybrid warfare, Russia and Eastern Europe, Black Sea region, and supervising and assessing academic assignments given to students within the area of expertise. Previously, Ambassador Gvineria has worked in various positions in the Georgian Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs, including as Ambassador to the Netherlands and Ambassador at Large for NATO and Security Policy. He also teaches at Webster University as an Associate Professor in the Estonian School of Diplomacy.
