Alexandra Takou is a Doctor of Science and PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece, specializing in hardware security, reliability-aware hardware Trojans, and EM-based attacks. Her research focuses on soft error attacks, SET propagation, and power grid and clock tree vulnerabilities in integrated circuits. She has worked as a researcher on EU and national projects involving electromagnetic modeling, big data analytics, and telecommunications optimization. Alexandra has extensive teaching and supervisory experience and has published in leading IEEE conferences and journals, including DFT, MWSCAS, SMACD, IISA, and Electronics.