Denis received his PhD in Brain, Mind, and Computer Science from the University of Padua in 2024, with a thesis on automotive cybersecurity. He is currently a Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Verona, where he conducted research on the cybersecurity of industrial control systems. In 2023, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He won the NGI Explorer Fellowship in 2020 and was awarded the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Seal of Excellence in 2026.
His research interests include cyber-physical systems security (with a focus on automotive, electric vehicle, and industrial control systems) and the application of artificial intelligence to cybersecurity.
