Our Team
Franck Courbon
CEO (Senior Hardware Security Engineer)
Dr Franck Courbon, MPhil (University of Glasgow), MRes (INSA Lyon), MEng (Télécom Saint-Étienne), PhD (Mines Saint-Étienne), is a Franco-British expert in hardware security. He is a By-Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (since 2024), a Franco-British Young Leader (2025), a UK Young Academy Member (2025) and a FormTheFuture Ambassador. Following a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship/Isaac Newton Trust Fellowship, Dr Courbon has incorporated Ethicronics in 2022.
Outside work, Franck likes to network.
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Ellie Vitanov
Software (Security) Engineer
Ellie graduated the University of Cambridge in July 2025, obtaining a BA with First Class Honours and an MEng with Distinction. For her Bachelor's dissertation, she built a software-defined P4Pi router with dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 functionalities. During her Master's, she focused on Computer Architecture, Systems, and Networks, with an interest in how security evolves across those layers. Originally from Bulgaria, she is an avid hiker and skier, and frequently thinks about how nice it would be to have a mountain near Cambridge.
Sebastian Morris
Software (Security) Engineer
Sebastian has a keen interest in trustworthy computing, embedded systems, and applied cryptography, and brings an engineering mindset to every stage of product development -from design and prototyping to optimisation and deployment. Sebastian plays a key role in advancing Ethicronics’ mission to deliver reliable, secure, and future-proof software foundations for defence, security, and critical infrastructure.
Diana Vasile
Incoming CTO (Senior Software Security Engineer)
Diana holds a BSc in Computer Science (Edinburgh), MPhil (Cambridge) and PhD (Cambridge), and brings over 8 years of experience spanning secure and privacy-preserving systems and on-device AI technologies.
Incoming COO
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Incoming Senior Application Engineer
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