Associate Professor Karol Nemoga, PhD., is Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and has long been involved in projects concerning cryptographic protection of information for the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic. Since 2008, with a break in 2013 and 2014, he has been a member of NATO’s Independent Scientific Evaluation Group (ISEG) in Brussels. He participates in the evaluation of project proposals submitted under NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme, assessing more than 50 projects annually since 2024. He also serves as NATO coordinator for selected projects. In 2017, he organised a NATO cybersecurity challenge and co-organised two conferences at NATO Headquarters in Brussels dedicated to the preparation and evaluation of the initiative. His research and publication activities focus primarily on theoretical cryptography. He also teaches at university level and has supervised a large number of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses. He has edited 28 proceedings from international conferences and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international mathematics journal Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications. He has been a member of approximately 50 programme committees of international conferences and has delivered more than 20 invited lectures at mathematical research events, mostly abroad. He has also led or coordinated nearly 20 international and European Union projects and has contributed to more than 100 applied projects for public administration.