Mohsen Toorani is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Campus Kongsberg. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IACR. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from the University of Bergen and has a background in Secure Communications (M.Sc.) and Communications Engineering (B.Sc.). He joined USN in 2021 after working as a postdoctoral researcher in Information Security at Lund University (2019-2021) and as a postdoctoral researcher in Cryptography at the University of Bergen and Simula@UiB (2016-2019). He is responsible for several master's and Ph.D. courses in cybersecurity and cryptography at USN. Additionally, he is involved in various research projects, editorial activities, conference organization, and institutional services.
Responsibilities
Course responsibility and teaching for:
- Master's courses (M.Sc. in Computer Science / Cybersecurity):
- Current courses:
- "Cryptography and Network Security" (CS4210), USN: Fall 2025 - Present.
- "System Administration and Security" (CS4220), USN: Spring 2022 - Present.
- Previously taught courses:
- "Cybersecurity", USN: Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
- "Cybercrime, IT Security and Risk", USN: Spring 2021.
- "Research Methods for Scientists and Engineers", USN: Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
- Current courses:
- Ph.D. courses (Ph.D. in Technology / Computer Science):
- “Seminars in Security Research” (TE9105), USN: Fall 2025 - Present.
- “Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols” (TE9102), USN: Approved but not yet offered.
Supervision:
- Theses in Cybersecurity and Cryptography (more information).
Current Projects:
- UTFORSK project: Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures (CY4CI)
Role: Principal Investigator and Project Leader
Duration: Jan. 2025 - Dec. 2028.
- RCN project: Understanding Threats and Optimizing mitigation, and enabling Privacy-by-design in AI (UTOPIA)
Role: Work Package leader
Duration: Mar. 2026 - Feb. 2030.
- RCN project: Co-created Health Technology (CoTecH)
Role: Work package leader for WP7 ("Digital Security and Privacy")
Duration: May 2022 - Apr. 2028.
- SFO project: Cybersecurity for democracy, social security, and preparedness
Role: Principal Investigator and Project Leader
Duration: 2024 - 2026.
- SFO project: Security and privacy for health and welfare services
Role: Principal Investigator and Project Leader
Duration: 2024 - 2026.
- DAM project: The path to artificial intelligence in clinical neurophysiology (VIKING)
Role: Project team member & Researcher
Duration: Sep. 2024 - Jun. 2026.
- RFF project: Decentralized secure and privacy-preserving sharing of health data (DeHelse)
Role: Principal Investigator and Project Leader
Duration: Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2024.
Institutional services:
- Faculty board member at the Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences (TNM), USN, Feb. 2023 - Present.
- Responsible for exchange programs in Computer Science (master's level) for both inbound and outbound exchange students at USN, July 2022 - Present.
- Deputy Leader of research group in Computer Science , USN, Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2025.
- Program coordinator for master's program in Computer Science, USN, July 2022 - July 2023.
Competences
- Cryptography
- Cybersecurity
- Security Protocols
- Distributed Systems Security
CV
Additional details and CV are available at toorani.no
Postal Address: University of South-Eastern Norway, Department of Science and Industrial Systems, P.O.Box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway.