Lebenslauf und Publikationen
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Cybersecurity
- Cyberdeterrence
- Cyber Strategy
Werdegang
Seit 2017 | German National Digital Hub Cybersecurity | https://www.de-hub.de: Managing Director: • Lead for national Cybersecurity Hub of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Coordinate all commercialization, scaling and internationalization activities of German Cybersecurity Hub startups |
2017–2018 | German Department of Defense (BMVg), Office of the State Secretary, Berlin: Advisor to the Commissioner for Strategic Armament: • Lead for Cybersecurity Advanced Research Projects (ADIC) – Cyber Operational Space • Manage military-civilian project teams |
Seit 2016 | Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Institute for Security Policy (ISPK), Kiel: PhD Candidate and Non-Resident Fellow: Dissertation: Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace - Optimizing Cyberdeterrence |
Seit 2015 | Fraunhofer Institute for Cybersecurity (SIT), Darmstadt: Strategic Advisor Cybersecurity: • Lead interdisciplinary cybersecurity R&D project teams and client acquisition |
Seit 2015 | Technical University Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt: Scientific Officer Computer Science and Cybersecurity: • Scientific Officer at the National Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP), Germany’s largest Cybersecurity Research cluster |
Seit 2015 | Scrapp Inc., NYC: Co-Founder and Member of the Board: • Scrapp is a secure mobile productivity application (iOS, SWIFT) • Led US/German software development teams |
2013–2015 | German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and Forschungszentrum Jülich: Advisor Cybersecurity: • Program on Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction & Sensitive Technologies |
Forschung
- Cybersecurity Advanced Research Projects – a Comparative Approach to the ADIC and DARPA Models (BMVg ‘17)
- Positionspapier: Cybersicherheit in Deutschland (CISPA, CRISP, KASTEL ‘16)
Publikationen
- „Privacy and Cyber Security on the Books and on the Ground“. Cyber Security and Privacy Protection as Global Challenges: What Role for the U.S./EU Partnership? In: Edited volume 2018. Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
- „Agile Abschreckung“ gegen Bedrohungen aus dem Cyber Raum – Optionen für deutsche Politik. In: Sirius - Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen, Nr. 2, Vol. 2. (2018), 126–136.
Pro bono
- M.I.T. Developmental Entrepreneurship for Social Innovation (DESI) Fellow (2 years);
- Harvard Robert A. Hefner III. China Fellow (2 years);
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Carlo-Schmid-Fellow for International Organizations (2 years);
- American Council on Germany (ACG) Warburg Distinguished; Speakers Award (Cybersecurity Lectures ’13,’14);
- Member “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V”.