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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
assurance and manager of the database group of Florida-based internet security firm
SafeCentral (formerly Authentium), he successfully established an international quality
assurance and product development organization, before stepping into a role as an internal
consultant for the CTO and COO, advising on product development, competitive analysis and
product certifications. Marcel holds a PhD in experimental nuclear physics, earned through
research done at University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Michael WAIDNER
Michael Waidner is one of the pioneers of Cyber Security and Microsoft Academic Search lists
him among the world’s top scientific authors in the area of IT security and privacy. As a leading
figure in Europe’s security scene he has successfully founded new research centers and
spearheaded innovative security paradigms like “Security at Large”, which focusses on the
security of complex real-existing systems. Waidner’s broad scientific and entrepreneurial
background makes him a unique expert for applied security whose council is sought by the
enterprise world and the political sphere alike.
Currently, Waidner is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information
Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a chair as professor for Security
in Information Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and is also the Director of
the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), Speaker of the Center for
Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP), and founding Director of the Fraunhofer Project
Center for Cybersecurity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Fraunhofer SIT/IL@HUJI).
He started in 1986 as a researcher at the University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology), Karlsruhe, Germany, where he received his Diploma and Doctorate in Computer
Science. In 2004 he moved to Rüschlikon in Switzerland to join IBM, where he held various
technical and management positions. As a Senior Manager he was responsible for IBM Zurich's
security and software research projects, and for IBM Research's global agenda in security and
privacy. During that time he co-initiated the IBM Privacy Research Institute, which he led until
2006, and the Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC), a joint research center hosted by the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In 2006 he joined the IBM Software Group in
Somers, NY, USA. Until 2010 he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology
Officer for Security, responsible for the technical security strategy and architecture of the IBM
Corporation.
Michael Waidner regularly participates in scientific and technical advisory boards, program
committees and conferences. He is a member of the ESORICS Steering Committee, and co-
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