Leonardo Horn Iwaya received a B.Sc. degree in computer science from Santa Catarina State University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Karlstad University, Sweden.

From 2011 to 2014, he was a Research Assistant with the Laboratory of Computer Networks and Architecture (LARC), PCS-EPUSP. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia, as part of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). From 2021 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Knowledge, Learning and Organizational Memory (KLOM), Federal University of Santa Catarina.

He is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Karlstad University. He is also with the Privacy and Security (PriSec) Research Group at Karlstad University, contributing to projects such as CyberSecurity4Europe, TRUEdig, SURPRISE, DHINO, and DigitalWell Arena. His research interests include privacy engineering, cybersecurity, human factors, mobile and ubiquitous health systems, and the impacts of new technologies.