Advisory Board #6

Head of Cyber-Defence Campus • Cyber-Defence Campus

Head of Data, Security & Network, Deputy MD • Switch

Head of Digital Research and Innovation • SICPA

Jean-Christophe Makuch is Head of Digital Research & Innovation at SICPA, where he leads strategic work on digital trust, advanced security technologies and innovation. With a background in software engineering, DevOps and digital transformation, he has held senior technical and managerial roles across the finance, engineering and digital-security sectors. He is particularly active on topics such as AI, post-quantum security and digital identity, helping bridge cutting-edge research with real-world applications.

Professor and senior researcher in biometrics security and privacy • Idiap Research Institute & UNIL

Prof. Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow) received his Ph.D. in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in 2000. His work focuses on signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine/deep learning, with a strong emphasis on biometric security and privacy. Since June 2025, he has been part of the Interim Management Team at the Idiap Research Institute. He is a senior researcher and head of the Biometrics Security and Privacy group, leading research on face, speaker, and vein recognition, attack detection (including presentation attacks, morphing, and deepfakes), and template protection. His group is strongly committed to reproducible research and open-source tools. He is also a Professor at the Université de Lausanne, where he teaches biometrics at the School of Criminal Justice. Previously, he lectured at EPFL on statistical pattern recognition at the Doctoral School. Prof. Marcel has served in several editorial and leadership roles, including VP Conferences of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Associate Editor for multiple IEEE journals. He has been Guest Editor and Co-editor for special issues on biometric security and is the lead co-editor of the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1–3). He has led major international research projects such as MOBIO, TABULA RASA, and BEAT, and serves as Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing.

Unlimitrust Campus Director • SICPA

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Chief Product Officer • SwissSign

Group Chief Information Officer • Kudelski