A warm welcome to Mr Theodoros Constantinides, who begins his PhD studies this month, supervised by Dr John Cartlidge and Dr Yan Ge. Theo is well-known to the group, having spent the last 12 months as Hybrid TA, helping us to deliver teaching on our new MSc Financial Technology with Data Science. Before that, Theo graduated with First Class MEng in Computer Science, Unviersity of Bristol. Theo has now been awarded a Computer Science Doctoral Training Associate (DTA) Studentship to support his studies for a PhD. As DTA, Theo will work on his PhD for 2 years part-time, while also teaching on MSc Financial Technology with Data Science, and will then switch to full-time PhD study for the remaining three years. Theo’s research will explore privacy in distributed blockchain-based systems.