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PhDr. Juraj Sikra, M.A. (Hons), MSc., CIPD (Assoc.), PhD. is a postdoctoral researcher in the SECUSO Research Group of Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer since 4 June 2025. Juraj works on the Digital Transformation Research (DiTraRe) in the area of cyber-securing sports' science data from misappropriation as well as lecturing in cybersecurity. 

Prior to joining SECUSO, Juraj completed a fully funded PhD (2021-2024) from improving cybercrime reporting at the University of Strathclyde - Glasgow (UK) within the CIS StrathCyber Group (in assoc. with GCHQ's NCSC). Juraj's PhD was supervised by Dr. Daniel R. Thomas, Prof. Karen V. Renaud and Dr. Ben Collier who have significantly improved his work and enabled him to publish impactful peer-reviewed research. 

Apart from a multidisciplinary skillset from both quantitative and qualitative research, Juraj brings with himself a network of international relationships spanning the public, private and third sector organisations. In the years before his PhD commencement, Juraj specialised in criminal and clinical mental health work in both private and public capacity. 

• Data protection
• Privacy 
• Cybercrime
• Cybersecurity

• DiTraRe

• 2021- 2023: Introduction to cybersecurity topics (exercise) at University of Strathclyde (Glasgow - Scotland)
• 2022: Clinical psychology (lecture + exercise) at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv - Ukraine)
• 2020: Clinical psychology (lecture + exercise) at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv - Ukraine)

• 2023: Saltire Award for SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme by the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews (Scotland)
• 2021: SICSA Cyber Security Research Theme: Online Cyber Security PhD Student Forum 2021

Reviewing Activities

• The 2024 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Security Research 
• Crime Science - Springer Nature (Impact factor 3.1 in 2023)

Grants

• 2024 (United Kingdom): DSIT Securing Converged Technologies: Overview of the Current State of Research £10.000
• 2022 (United Kingdom): SICSA Research Scholar £750
• 2022 (United Kingdom): SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme £2.570
• 2022 (United Kingdom): St Andrews Cybersecurity Curriculum Research £2.559

• Digit FYI (2024): New study urges Police Scotland to do more for cyber-crime victims
• Homeland Security News (2024): Police 'need to play a larger role' in recovering cybercrime money
• Herald (2024) Police Scotland urged to play 'greater role' in cybercrime support
• Holyrood (2024): Police Scotland urged to do more for cybercrime victims
• TechXplore (2024): Police 'need to play a larger role' in recovering cybercrime money

Improving cybercrime reporting in Scotland University of Pisa - Faculty of Law (2022)