Professor Spanoudakis works in the broad field of software systems engineering. In 2000, he established the Software Engineering Research Group at City research group (SE@City) and led it until 2014 when the group became part of the Centre for Adaptive Computing Engineering (CeNACS). His current research interests focus on software systems security (with particular focus on assessing system security compliance and risk, security certification and security-by-design) and biomedical computing. He has published extensively in the areas of his research (more than 180 peer reviewed publications) and has obtained more than 80m Euro in collaborative research funding.