Dr Benjamin Aziz

Benjamin Aziz is a Senior Research Scientist in the Scientific Applications Group in the e-Science Centre at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Benjamin's main research interests generally include areas of large-scale distributed systems such as Grid and Cloud computing, formal methods and foundations of computing systems, trust and security management and requirements engineering.

Benjamin is currently involved in European projects Consequence, dealing with context-aware data-centric security, and XtreemOS, developing an operating systems for Grids.

In the past, Benjamin was involved in EU FP6 project GridTrust, developing security and trust management solutions for Grid systems, and EU FP6 CoreGrid network of excellence.

Benjamin holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Dublin City University, M.Sc. degree in computer science from Trinity College Dublin and B.Sc. degree in Electronics from Garyounis University.

Benjamin is a member of several working groups including the Cloud Computing Security Alliance, ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial and Critical Systems, ERCIM Security and Trust Management and NESSI’s Trust, Security and Dependability group.