Members
Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser
researches cyber security and technical data protection
How can critical infrastructures in a networked world be protected against cyber attacks?
Professor Stefan Katzenbeisser holds the Chair of Computer Engineering at the University of Passau. He conducts research on cyber security in embedded systems, on secure critical infrastructures and on technical data protection. He is spokesperson of the new research cluster "ForDaySec - Security in everyday digitalisation", which is funded by the Bavarian Science Ministry and where researchers from computer science, law and sociology have come together to develop new types of technical procedures to provide security in day-to-day digital life. Besides participating in research projects on secure mobility, he is also involved in the research initiative "6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC)" which is coordinated by Fraunhofer HHI and aims to develop mobile telecommunication systems of the sixth generation by pushing back the limits of technology.
Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schröder
researches in public and IT law
Prof. Dr. Thomas Riehm
researches contract and liability law and conflict resolution, including issues…
What does digitization mean for the application and further development of laws that are over 100 years old?
Prof. Dr. Thomas Riehm holds the Chair of German and European Private Law, Civil Procedure Law, and Legal Theory and is the spokesperson for the Institute for Digital Society Law. His research focuses on contract and liability law with an emphasis on IT issues, as well as civil dispute resolution law and its digitization. Among other things, he deals with legal issues relating to the digitization of civil proceedings, the use of artificial intelligence, contract law for digital services, and the adaptation of formal requirements to digitization.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hammer
researches the digital economy and legal tech
How can information flow control be used to identify security gaps?
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hammer holds the Chair of Software Engineering I. One focus of his research is language-based software security. In particular, he deals with the security of mobile and web applications, Internet of Things devices, and concurrent systems. After completing his doctorate at KIT, he conducted research at IBM Research and Purdue University. He then held professorships at Utah State University, Saarland University, and the University of Potsdam.
Prof. Dr. Michael Beurskens
researches the digital economy and legal tech
How can globally active Internet giants be regulated legally?
Prof. Dr. Michael Beurskens holds the Chair of Private Law, specializing in commercial law and digitalization. He deals with issues of direct and indirect regulation of the digital economy, particularly through antitrust law, as well as issues of licensing and liability law, for example in intellectual property law, data protection law, or in the case of digital products and services that do not function as specified.
Prof. Dr. Ing. Hermann de Meer
researches smart grids
How can we use digitalization to make the power grid secure and stable?
Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer holds the Chair of Computer Science with a focus on Computer Networks and Computer Communication at the University of Passau and is an honorary professor at University College London. Previously, he was a junior professor at the University of Hamburg and a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City, USA, among other positions. His research interests include cloud computing, energy systems, network virtualization, IT security, smart grids, smart cities, Industry 4.0, the digitization of energy systems, computer networks and computer communication, and distributed systems.
Prof. Dr. Elif Bilge Kavun
conducts research on secure intelligent systems
How can artificial intelligence methods be used to make IT systems more secure?
Professor Elif Bilge Kavun is Assistant Professor for Secure Intelligent Systems at the University of Passau. Before this, she was "Lecturer" for Cybersecurity at the University of Sheffield (Great Britain) and Digital Design Engineer for Crypto Cores at Infineon (Munich). She completed her doctorate on "Embedded Security" at Ruhr University Bochum in 2015. Professor Elif Bilge Kavun researches the security of novel intelligent systems as well as traditional computer and embedded systems. Among other things, she devotes herself to physical attacks and countermeasures.
Professor Martin Kreuzer
researches computer algebra
How do you check the security of encryption systems using computer algebra?
Professor Martin Kreuzer has held the chair of Mathematics with a focus on Symbolic Computation since 2007. His main research areas are computer algebra, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and their applications. He is particularly interested in algebraic cryptography, which deals with the construction of new cryptosystems and the security analysis of existing cryptosystems using algebraic methods. The DFG project "Algebraic Error Attacks", which investigates the protection of cryptographic hardware against fault injections, is his most important activity in this field.
Professor Dr. Susanne Mayr
researches psychology and human-machine interaction
Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga
researches IT security
How can IT applications be made secure in everyday use?
Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga holds the Chair of IT Security at the University of Passau. He earned his doctorate at KIT and worked for ten years in industrial research in the field of security before being appointed to the University of Hamburg to head the Security in Distributed Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science. In 2009, he moved to Passau and took over as head of the Institute for IT Security and Security Law (ISL). His research focuses on web security, security architectures, and protocols with an emphasis on the Internet of Things.
Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Reiser
Prof. Dr. Thomas Widjaja
researches IT security and the development of data-based business models
What changes when companies develop new services using customer data?
Thomas Widjaja has been Professor of Business Informatics at the University of Passau since 2016. In the context of PIDS, he conducts research on the IT security of digital services and the development of profitable and privacy-friendly data-based business models at the Chair of Business Informatics with a focus on Business Information Systems. To this end, he applies a broad spectrum of methods (including mathematical-formal models, prototyping, simulation studies, and quantitative analyses using structural equation models).
Prof. Dr. Jens Zumbrägel
researches algebra and cryptography
How can abstract mathematics contribute to the security of encryption?
Prof. Dr. Jens Zumbrägel has been a professor of mathematics specializing in cryptography since 2017. He is passionate about algebra and its applications in public-key cryptography and communications engineering. His research focuses on the discrete logarithm problem, as well as post-quantum cryptography and codes over rings.
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