Prof. Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa was appointed as full professor and chair of Cybersecurity at the School of Computer Science, at the Univ. of St. Gallen in August 2020. Before joining the University of St. Gallen, she was a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She has served as visiting professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), ETHZ and Vrije Universiteit (Netherlands) as well as a visiting scholar at Harvard University (USA). Her research focuses on enhancing the security of communication technologies by addressing critical privacy and security challenges, and by designing authentication and computation protocols with provable security guarantees.