Dr Nicholas Micallef is a Lecturer at Swansea University. His research focuses on misinformation, both from a data-driven and human aspects perspective. In his previous role at New York University Abu Dhabi, he was involved in various projects that studied the countering of misinformation and the spreading of cross-platform multimodal misinformation. In his position at the University of New South Wales his research focused on designing privacy-enhancing technologies that provide users with realistic information to anonymize their online identities. Dr. Micallef obtained his PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom. In his PhD he investigated the use of mobile sensing to improve the usability of smartphone authentication. His research interests include Misinformation, Usable Privacy and Security, Authentication, and Mobile HCI.