UTFacultiesEEMCSDisciplines & departmentsSCSNews & EventsAndrea Continella has been awarded a VIDI grant

Andrea Continella has been awarded a VIDI grant

We’re proud to announce that Andrea Continella has been awarded a VIDI grant! 

The Vidi is a funding instrument from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) designed to give experienced researchers, after obtaining their PhD, the opportunity to establish their own research group and develop an innovative line of research. It is a grant of up to €850,000, intended to support groundbreaking research over five years.

This year, six outstanding researchers, from the University of Twente have received a VIDI grant:

  • Marcello Carioni (EEMCS)
  • Andrea Continella (EEMCS)
  • Gregor Gantner (EEMCS, external)
  • Lonneke Lenferink (BMS)
  • Gaurav Rattan (EEMCS)
  • Nicola Strisciuglio (EEMCS)

Andrea’s work at SCS focuses on advancing cybersecurity through cutting-edge research on systems and software security — a vital step toward creating safer and more resilient digital infrastructures. 

Congratulations to all awardees, and especially to Andrea Continella, whose pioneering research in cybersecurity continues to push boundaries and inspire innovation!

Read more below about his Vidi research project:

  • Dr. ir. A. Continella

    The software holding our digital society is vulnerable to attacks from cybercriminals. Researchers and companies rely on techniques to discover vulnerabilities in production software and mitigate them. However, current tools detect too many potential flaws, overwhelming organisations, and do not provide actionable insights, leaving services still highly vulnerable. In this project, the researchers design and develop automated techniques to analyse discovered vulnerabilities and assess their risk in the context of specific IT infrastructures, prioritising the critical ones. Unlike prior work, the researchers analyse infrastructures as a whole, instead of individual applications, allowing for prompt, effective mitigation and reducing costs.