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Dr. Nizar Touleimat is the Director of the R&D programme for the application of Smart Digital Systems to Security and Defence within the LIST Institute of the French Commission for Alternative and Atomic Energies (CEA). He has contributed to the development of national and European collaborative R&D programmes related to cybersecurity, military intelligence, the fight against the CBRNE and terrorist threats, border security and the protection of strategic infrastructures. He is currently the coordinator of the STARLIGHT European project, an innovation project backed by the EU that aims to strengthen European technological autonomy and sovereignty in the field of AI for Law Enforcement and at protecting infrastructures against cyber-attacks enabled by AI. Dr. Touleimat represents CEA in European organisations such as: European Anti-Cybercrime Technology Development Association (EACTDA), Security & Defence Research working group of EARTO (co-chair) and the European Cybersecurity Organisation (Board of Directors). He is member of the FCT/INFRA CERIS expert group of the European Commission and he seats at the scientific Advisory Board of the French Academy of Police. Dr. Touleimat is also graduated from French IHEDN and is an operational reserve officer within the French Navy.