Julian Fierrez Editor

Prof. Sébastien Marcel is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Biometrics Security and Privacy Group at the Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland. He is a Lecturer at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Professor at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL). He is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing. He was Vice-President Conferences of the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the Project Coordinator of the EC-funded TABULA RASA (Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks) and BEAT (Biometrics Evaluation and Testing) projects.

Prof. Julian Fierrez is a full Professor in the School of Engineering (EPS) at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain. He is Vice-Chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4), has participated in large EU projects focused on biometrics since 2003 (most notably BIOSEC, BIOSECURE, TABULA RASA, and BEAT), and has received a number of best paper awards and other prestigious research distinctions, including the IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award 2017.

Prof. Nicholas Evans is a Professor at EURECOM, Biot, France where he heads research in Audio Security and Privacy within the Digital Security Department. He participated in the EU BIOSECURE, TABULA RASA, OCTAVE  and TReSPAsS-ETN projects and is among the co-founders of the ASVspoof (2015-2021) and SASV (2022) initiatives and challenge series relating to spoofing-robust voice biometrics.