Professor Olaf Maennel holds the Defence Science and Technology Group - University of Adelaide Joint Chair in Cyber Security.   He has been with the University of Adelaide since 2023, and held previously faculty positions at Loughborough University in England and Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, where he led the research at the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity and established a Centre for Maritime Cybersecurity.   His research interests started with computer network security and have broadened over the years to include cyber defence technical exercises and critical infrastructure protection, focusing on the transport sector cyber security. He has been chairing numerous conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM  and the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He has been active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardisation body, contributed to the European Commission as a vice-chair in several funding calls, and chaired a working group at the European Cyber Security Organisation. He has closely collaborated with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE). At the University of Adelaide, he contributes to Australia’s cyber resilience through research and education.