Cybersecurity and Privacy
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Cyber infrastructure
Prof. Cees de Laat is professor of System and Network Engineering. He focuses on the complexity of man-made systems at all scales. Exploiting this complexity in a transparent, reliable way for safe and secure data processing is an important topic determining the focus of his research today. | +31 (0)20 525 7590 | +31 (0)6 51 566 438 | c.t.a.m.delaat@uva.nl
Cyber operations
Dr Peter Pijpers is a researcher at the UvA's Amsterdam Centre for International Law (ACIL) and associate professor of Cyber Operations at the Netherlands Defence Academy. His research focuses on the legal and cognitive dimensions of cyber operations, in particular on influencing such operations by means of social media. | b.m.j.pijpers@uva.nl
Cryptography
Dr Kostas Papagiannopoulos is an assistant professor in the Security by Design group, part of the Systems and Networking lab. His research focuses on applied cryptography and includes high-quality cryptographic engineering in software and hardware. His research interests also include the security of semiconductor hardware for cryptographic elements, including side-channel and error-based cryptanalysis. | +49 179 137 6779 | k.papagiannopoulos@uva.nl
Cryptography
Prof. Christian Schaffner is professor of Theoretical Computer Science and leader of the Theory of Computer Science (TCS) group at the UvA's Informatics Institute. He is also director of QuSoft, the Dutch research centre for quantum software. He is a leading expert in quantum cryptography, both in the field of cryptography that remains secure in the event of a quantum attack (also known as post-quantum cryptography) and in the design of protocols that solve cryptographic problems involving quantum data and quantum communications. | +31 (0)6 4354 5689 | c.schaffner@uva.nl
Law and digital infrastructure
Prof. Joris van Hoboken is professor of Information Law. His research looks at questions relating to law and digital infrastructure, including at the intersection of fundamental rights protection (data privacy, freedom of expression, non-discrimination) and the governance of platforms and internet-based services. | J.V.J.vanHoboken@uva.nl | +31 (0)6 1887 8841
Privacy and cybersecurity
Dr Ot van Daalen's research focuses on privacy and cybersecurity. In addition, he is a practicing lawyer. He launched the digital rights organisation Bits of Freedom and worked at the Dutch data protection authority. He is an expert on the GDPR, intelligence services, surveillance, tracking, profiling, data breaches, hacking, encryption, quantum computing and human rights. | O.L.vanDaalen@uva.nl
Online data & privacy
Prof. Natali Helberger is university professor of Law and Digital Technology, with a special focus on AI. She conducts research into how the role and legal position of the user of information changes under the influence of information technology and social and economic circumstances. She also looks at the implications of this for the legal position, rights and obligations of information users under current and future information law. Important areas of focus in her research are media and data analytics, profiling, social media, privacy and user rights. | n.helberger@uva.nl
Protection of privacy and personal data
Dr Kristina Irion focuses on EU information law and public policy, in particular the protection of privacy and personal data, transnational data flows and data management. | +31 (0)6 14 28 68 63 | k.irion@uva.nl
Cybersecurity
Dr Francesco Regazzoni's research is mainly concerned with security, in particular the security of embedded systems and cyber-physical systems (particularly side-channel attacks and countermeasures). | +31 (0)20 525 8232 | f.regazzoni@uva.nl
Power in Communication Infrastructures
Dr. Niels ten Oever researches how norms, values, and ideologies get inscribed, resisted, and subverted in communication infrastructures through their transnational governance. He analyzes the design, standardization, and deployment of internet and telecommunication networks in the EU, US, Russia, and China. | n.tenoever@uva.nl | +31 (0)6 29 051 853