Ric is a Principal Security Researcher at Orange Cyberdefense, an Honorary Researcher at Imperial College London, and a 2025-2026 Virtual Routes European Cybersecurity Fellow. He holds a PhD in computer science from Lancaster University, undertaken as part of an EPSRC Industrial CASE studentship sponsored by Airbus, where his research focused on adversary-centric quantitative risk assessment. His work takes a pragmatic approach to both offensive and defensive aspects of cyber security.
More recently, his research has explored both the technical and policy dimensions of operational technology cyber security, particularly within critical national infrastructure. This work has been recognised by multiple vendors, earning acknowledgements in their ‘hall of thanks’. He has also presented it at internationally recognised industry conferences.
In 2024, he was awarded a funded fellowship by the Research Institute for Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems (RITICS) to advance research into operational technology penetration testing.
