Education
Refik Molva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (1986) and a B.Sc. in Computer Science (1981) from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.

Teaching
He taught several courses on network security, applied cryptography, protocols and networking at EURECOM.
He currently is responsible for the Security track and the Master of Science in Communications and Computer Security at EURECOM.
He also taught security and applied cryptography courses at the doctoral school on communications and in the postgraduate program at EPFL, in the networking and multimedia department of TELECOM Bretagne.

He held several continued education sessions on network security with industrial companies such as IBM, HP and as part of the Cap-sesa Institut professional education seminars.

Industrial experience
Prior to joining EURECOM, he worked from 1987 till 1992 as a Research Staff Member in the Zurich Research Laboratory of IBM where, as part of the core team that thrusted network ans system security research, he was one of the key designers of the KryptoKnight security system. He also worked as a consultant in network security in the IBM Consulting Group in 1997.

Major research interests
His major interests are applied cryptography and design of security protocols  and privacy-preserving mechanisms for networks and distributed systems.
He has been responsible for several research projects on multicast key management and authentication, mobile network security, anonymity, intrusion detection, right management and privacy in on-line social networks.
Beside security, he worked on distributed multimedia applications over high speed networks and on network interconnection.

Visibility, membership, committee
He sat in several expert committees for the European Commission and French National organisations such as RNRT, ACI Sécurité, AERES and in scientific committees for various academic institutions.
He has been the PC chair for IEEE ICC Security Symposium, Securecomm, the general chair for ESORICS and RAID, and PC chair for several workshops as well as a program committee member numerous conferences in security and networking including ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ICDCS, ACM ASIA CCS, and ESORICS.

He is a member of the editorial board for Computer Networks, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journals.