I am professor for Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems (PEPSys) at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg’s faculty for Digital and Analytical Sciences, Austria. My research combines technical and non-technical (especially legal) aspects of cutting-edge, real-world, and enterprise- or society-grade technologies and systems. This particularly includes:

• Techno-legal privacy engineering, especially also including aspects beyond anonymity and security
• Novel technical concepts, mechanisms, and components fostering policy-alignment beyond privacy / data protection law
• Metrics- and experiment-driven assessment and operation of privacy- and policy-alignment-techniques (e.g., anonymity guarantees, utility-metrics, performance-overheads, etc.)
• Societal impacts of emerging technologies and techno-legal implications (“technology-policy co-design”)

Besides other activities, I co-lead Salzburg’s EXDIGIT initiative together with Manfred Tscheligi, Christine Bauer, and Franz-Benjamin Mocnik. For further and always up-to-date information, visit my profiles on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, and – with a more private focus – Twitter / X.