Simone Fischer-Hübner

 
Professor in Computer Science

Research

Projects:

EU H2020 project CyberSec4Europe

SSF project SURPRISE (Secure and Private Connectivity in Smart Environments)

KK-project TRUEdig (Trust and Empowerment in DIGital services)

SWITS (Swedish IT Security Network for PhD Students)


Past Projects:

EU H2020 project PAPAYA (PlAtform for PrivAcY preserving data Analytics)

EU H2020 Marie Curie ITN Privacy & Us (Scientific Coordinator)

EU Tempus+ project DAMOC

EU H2020 project PRISMACLOUD (PRIvacy & Security MAintaining Services in the CLOUD)

EU H2020 project CREDENTIAL (Secure Cloud Indentity Wallet)

EU FP7 FET integrated project SmartSociety

KK-Profile Project HITS

U FP7 integrated project A4Cloud (Accountability Accountability for Cloud and Other Future Internet Services)

EU FP7 integrated project PrimeLife (Privacy and Identity Management for Life)

EU FP7 NoE NEWCOM++

EU FP6 integrated Project PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe)

EU FP6 NoE FIDIS (Future of Identity in Europe)

EU CELTIC/EUREKA Project BUGYO (Building Security Assurance in Open Infrastructures)

PETweb II (Privacy-respecting Identity Management for e-Norge)

EU Tempus Project HEICA

U-PrIM (Usable Privacy and Identity Management for Smart Applications) funded by KK Stiftelsen

”Mitigate DNS self-reflecting attacks on SIP proxies” funded by Internetfonden .SE

Google Research Award projects “Usable Privacy and Transparency I and II”

 

Awards:

Honorary Doctor, Chalmers University of Technology, 2021

Best Paper Award , ACM SAC 2018 – System and Software Security Track

ISD 2017 Conference Best Paper Award

William Winsborough Award by the IFIP Working Group 11.11 on Trust Management, 2016

Google Research Award, 2012

Google Research Award, 2010

IFIP Silver Core Award , 2001

Teaching

Computer Security II - DVGC20 (teacher)

Topics in Computer Security - DVAD03 (coordinator)

Introduction to Privacy and the GDPR – DVAD31 (online course)

Privacy by Design - DVAD30 (online course)

Collaboration

Selection of Committees:

  • Swedish Representative for IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 11 (Information Security & Privacy)
  • IFIP TC11 vice chair
  • Member of the MSB (Swedish Civil Contingency Agency) Cyber Security Advisory Board (MSB:s Cybersäkerhetsråd) - since 2010.
  • Steering Committee member of the NordSec conferences and the IFIP Summer Schools on Privacy and Identity Management
  • Advisory Board member for the Norwegian PhD research school for IT security COINS
  • Advisory Board member of the EU H2020 project OLYMPUS and the German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity CRISP, and the German Artificial Intelligence of Assessment (AI FORA) project.
  • Member of the International Editorial Boards of the Springer International Journal of Information Security 
  • Member of the PET board for the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposia (PETS)
  • Board Member of Forum för Dataskydd
  • Vice Chair of IEEE Sweden, Chapter for Computer and Software Engineering
  • Steering Committee member (representing SWITS) of cybernode.se

Selection of former Committees:

  • Former Board Member of STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education), since 2010-2016.
  • Former member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Data Protection Commissioner (Datainspektionens insysnråd) to advise on privacy and security aspects, 2008-2016.
  • Former member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Tax Authorities (Skatteverkets insynsråd), 2008-2012.
  • Former member of the Advisory Board member of Science Europe (2017-2018)

Bio

  • Since June 2000: Full Professor at the Computer Science Department at Karlstad University in Sweden
  • Since 2021: Affiliated Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
  • 15. December 1999: Habilitation Degree at the Computer Science Department of Hamburg University.
  • from 1.July 1998- 30.June 1999 : Guest Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University /  Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • from Sept. 1994- March 1995: Guest Professor (Associate Professor) at the Institute of Computer and Systems Sciences (DAISY), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • October 1992 –June 2000: Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of Hamburg University
  • 17. July 1992: Doctor Degree at the Computer Science Department of Hamburg University
  • June 1988-1992: Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Computer Science Department of Hamburg University
  • May 1988: Diploma in Computer Science with a minor in Law at Hamburg University

Publications