Maryline Laurent is Full Professor with Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. After taking the lead of the research team R3S (Network, Systems, Services, Security) of the CNRS SAMOVAR lab in 2013 for 7 years, she currently heads the RST department (Telecommunication Networks and services) of Télécom SudParis. She is co-founder of the multidisciplinary research chair of Institut Mines-Télécom “Values and Policies of Personal Information”. She is also area editor of Annals of Telecommunication journal, editor of several books including “Digital Identity Management” and guest editor of several special issues in privacy area. She has supervised more than 20 PhD theses and she has published more than a hundred papers in highly ranked international journals and conferences. Her research topics are related to network security and privacy, including privacy-enhancing technologies and applied cryptography, for cloud, IoT, identity management and blockchains. She is expert for European Commission (H2020), and French ANR research agency. She is regularly invited for radio or press interviews about personal data protection.