Karlstad University Department of Computer Science

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Prof. Dr. habil. Simone Fischer-Hübner
Karlstad University
Department of Computer Science
Room no: 5A 435
Universitetsgatan 1
S 651 88 Karlstad / Sweden
Tel +46 54 700 1723
Fax +46 54 700 1828
E-mail: simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se

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Position

Professor in Computer Science

Research Group

PRISEC (Privacy and Security) Research Group

Projects

EU FP7 integrated project A4Cloud (Accountability Accountability For Cloud and Other Future Internet Services)

EU FP7 FET integrated project SmartSociety

SWITS (Swedish IT Security Network for PhD Students)

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

EU Tempus Project HEICA

Google Research Award project “Usable Privacy and Transparency II”

Past Projects

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

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)

Teaching/Courses

Computer Security I

Computer Security II

Topics in Computer Security

CV

Publications

Awards

Scientific Activities

• Swedish IFIP TC11 Representative
• Chair of IFIP Working Group 11.6 (Identity Management)
• Member of IFIP Working Group 9.6/11.7 (IT Misuse and the Law) and former Chair (1998-2005)
• Member of the External Advisory Board of the IBM Privacy Institute
• Coordinator of the Swedish IT-Security Network for PhD students (SWITS)
• Member of the Board of IEEE Sweden, Section Computer/Software Engineering Chapter
• Member of the Nordsec (Nordic workshops on Secure IT Systems) steering committee
• Member of the International Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP).
• Member of the Advisory Body of the Swedish Data Protection Commissioner (Datainspektionens insynsråd)
• Member of MSB IT Security Advisory Board (MSB informationssäkerhetsråd)
• ENISA “Expert for identifying emerging an future risks posed by new ICTs”
• Member of the STINT steering committee

Current and recent Involvement in International Programme Committees:

• IFIP TC-9 6th "Human Choice & Computers" Conference (HCC-6) as part of IFIP World Computer Congress 2002, Montreal, August 25-30, 2002
• International Workshop on "Trust and Privacy in Digital Business",  in conjunction with the13^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002), Aix-en-Provence, France, September 2-6, 2002
• ESORICS 2002, October 14-16, 2002, Zurich
• NORDSEC' 2002, Karlstad University, November 7-8, 2002 (programme committee co-chair)
• Second International IFIP TC-11, WG 11.4 Working Conference on Network & Distributed System Security, I-NetSec03, Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 26-28 May 2003, Athens, Greece.
• IFIP WG 9.6/11.7 third working conference on „Security and Control of Society – III”, June 15-16, 2001, Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 26-28 May 2003, Athens, Greece (Programme Committee Co-Chair).
• IFIP WG 11.8 3rd World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE3), 26-28 June 2003 at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, USA.
• BIOSIG 2003, 24 July 2003, Darmstadt /Germany
• Second International Summer School organized by IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 9.8, Risks & Challenges of the Network Society in cooperation with Karlstad University and HumanIT, 4 –8  August 2003.
• Third International Workshop on" Trust and Privacy in Digital Business" (TrustBus'03), in conjunction with the14^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2003.
• NORDSEC 2003, 15 – 17 October 2003, Gjøvik University College, Norway

· The IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network, and Information Security, CNIS 2003, December 10-12, 2003, New York, USA

· Promote IT 2004, Fourth annual conference for promoting research and advanced education in topics of IT, Karlstad University, 5.-7. May 2004 (Programme Committee Co-Chair).

· 19th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/Sec 2004), Toulouse, as part of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress, August 22-27, 2004, (www.wcc2004.org)

· I-NetSec04, 3nd Working Conference on Privacy and Anonymity in  Networked and Distributed Systems, Centre de Congres Pierre Baudis,  23-26 August 2004, Toulouse, France.

· 1st International conference on "Trust and Privacy in Digital Business" (Trustbus’ 04), August 30 - September 3, 2004, Zaragoza, Spain.

· RAID 2004, the Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, to be held at Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 15.-17. September 2004.

· NORDSEC'2004, The 9th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT-systems, 4-5 November 2004, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

· Workshop Privacy Respecting Incident Management, PRIMA 2005, 6. April 2005, Regensburg, Germany.

· IFIP WG 11.8 4th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE4), 18-20 May 2005, Moscow, Russia.

· 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/Sec 2005), May 30-June 1, 2005, Chiba, Japan.

· Promote IT 2005, Fifth annual conference for promoting research and advanced education in topics of IT , Dalarna University/Sweden, 11-13 May 2005.

· 2nd International Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus´05) in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2005.

· 2nd VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, September 2-3, 2005, Trondheim, Norway, in conjunction with 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases.

· The Third IASTED International Conference on COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (CCN 2005), October 24-26, 2005,Marina del Rey, CA, USA

· ACM CCS2005 Workshop on Digital Identity Management, November 11, 2005, Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, VA, USA

· The IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network and Information Security (CNIS 2005), November 14 - November 16 , 2005, Phoenix, USA.

• 2005 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'05), December 15-19, 2005, Xi'an, China.

· 21st IFIP International Information Security Conference "Security and Privacy in Dynamic Environments" (IFIP/SEC 2006), May 22 - 24, 2006, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.

· I-NetSec06, 4th Working Conference on Privacy and Anonymity in Networked and Distributed Systems organized by IFIP WG11.4, Karlstad University, 24 May 2006, Karlstad, Sweden.

· International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security-ETRICS 2006, June 6-9, 2006, Freiburg, Germany.

· 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 28 - June 30, 2006

• TrustBus’06 (3rd International conference on Trust, Privacy and Security of Digital Business),to be held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006) in Krakov, Poland, September 4 – 8, 2006 (General Conference Chair).
• SDM’06, 3rd VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, September 10-11,2006, Seoul, Korea.
• CNIS 2006 IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network and Internet Security (CNIS 2006), Cambridge, USA, October 9-11, 2006.
• NordSec 2006 The 11th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT-systems, Linköping, Sweden, October 19 - 20 2006.
• 2006 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'06), November 3-6, 2006, Guangzhou, China.
• IFIP SEC 2007 “New approaches for Security, Privacy and Trust in Complex Environments”, May 14-16, 2007, Sandton, South Africa.
• W2SP 2007: Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2007, Thursday, May 24, The Claremont Resort, Oakland, California
  Sponsored by the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance HAISA 2007,10-12 July 2007, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
• Third International Summer School organized by IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6 in cooperation with FIDIS Network of Excellence, The Future of Identity in the Information Society, Karlstad University,  6th – 10th August 2007 (PC-co-chair)
• First IFIP WG 11.6 working conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management, IDMAN’07, Rotterdam/Netherlands, 11-12 October, 2007 (PC-co-chair).
• 4th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus'07), September 3 – 7, 2007,  Regensburg, Germany.
• SDM´07 - 4th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, September 23-24, 2007, University of Vienna, Austria.

• IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network and Information Security (CNIS 2007),  Berkeley, USA, September 24-26, 2007.

• NordSec 2007: The 12th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems, October 11 - 12 2007, Reykjavik, Iceland.

· SAICST 2007, Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Fish River Sun, Sunshine Coast, South Africa, 30 Sept - 3rd Oct.

· 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, VA, USA – October 29 - November 2, 2007.

· 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'07) December 17-19, 2007, in Harbin, China.

· Sicherheit 2008, Saarbruecken, 2-4 April 2008.

· W2SP 2008: Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2008, May 22 The Claremont Resort, Oakland, California Sponsored by the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

· HAISA 2008, International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, 8-18 July 2008, Plymouth, United Kingdom.

· 5th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM’08), August 24-30, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand

• Fourth IFIP/FIDIS Internet Security & Privacy Summer School 2008 on "The Future of Identity in the Information Society ? Challenges for Privacy and Security" to be held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Rep., 1-7 September 2008.

· IFIP SEC 2008, 23rd International Information Security Conference co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress 2008, Milan, Italy - September 8-10, 2008.

· 5th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus’08), to be held in Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008.

· BIOSIG 2008 GI Workshop , Biometric Border Control & Federated Identity Management, 11.-12. September 2008, Darmstadt

· I3E 2008, 8th IFIP Conference on e-Buisiness, e-Service and e-Society, Tokyo, 24-26 September 2008.

· SAICSIT 2008, "Riding the wave of technology", Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 6 - 8 October 2008, Wilderness Beach Hotel Garden Route, Wilderness, South Africa.

· 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008), Alexandria, VA, USA – October 27 - 31, 2008.

· IFIP iNetSec 2009, Open Research Problems in Network Security, 23-24 April 2009, Zurich/Switzerland.

· CISIM 2009 Conference, May 20 - 22, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.

· IFIP SEC 2009, 24^th International Information Security Conference, Cyprus, 18-10 May 2009.

· HAISA 2009, International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, 25-26 June 2009, Athens/Greece.

· SECRYPT 2009 – International Conference on Security and Cryptography, 7-10 July 2009, Milan/Italy.

· 6th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM), August 28, 2009 Lyon, France, in conjunction with 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases.

· TrustBus'09: The 6th International Conference on TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN DIGITAL BUSINESS in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009), to be held in Linz, Austria, 31 August 4 September 2009 (PC co-chair).

· PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for Life, 7-11 September 2009, Nice/France (PC co-chair).

· NordSec2009 -The 14th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, Oslo, 14-16 October 2009..00

· ACM CCS 2009, The annual ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 9-13, 2009, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

· Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2010), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 25-28 January 2010

· ACM SAC 2010,The 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 22 – 26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland

· iNETSEC 2010, Open Research Problems in Network Security, Sofia, Bulgaria, 05-06 March 2010

· HAISA 2010, International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2010, 17-18 May 2010, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

· CMS’2010 - 11th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, 31 May - 02 June, 2010, Linz, Austria

· DBSec 2010- 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Rome, 2010-06-21 - 2010-06-23

· 2nd International Workshop on Security and Communication Networks (IWSCN 2010)May 26-28, 2010, Karlstad, Sweden

· PET 2010, the 10th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2010) July 21–23, 2010. Berlin, Germany.

· PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010, Sixth International Summer School organised jointly by the EU FP7 project PrimeLife and the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6 on Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2nd - 6th August 2010 (General Chair)

· ISSA 2010 (Information Security for South Africa ), 2 - 4 Aug 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa

· 1st Security Conference - Europe, August 15-17, 2010 in Örebro, Sweden

· PASSAT 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, 20-22 Aug 2010, Minneapolis/USA

· TrustBus’10 - 7th International Conference on TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN DIGITAL BUSINESS, Bilbao, Spain,30 August - 3 September 2010

· BIOSIG 2010 - BEST Biometrics – beyond security applications, 09.-10.09.2010, Darmstadt/Germany.

· IFIP TC11 SEC 2010 - 25th IFIP International Information Security Conference Security & Privacy − Silver Linings in the Cloud, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, 20 -23 September 2010 , Brisbane , Australia

· IFIP TC9 HCC9 - 9th IFIP Human Choice and Computers International Conference, Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, 20 -23 September 2010 , Brisbane , Australia (Track 3 PC-co chair)

· STM 2010 - 6th International Workshop on SECURITY and TRUST MANAGEMENT, Athens, Greece, 23-24 September 2010

· ISSE/SICHERHEIT 2010, Berlin, 5.-7. Oktober 2010

· I3E - 10th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, 3-5 Nov 2010

· IDMAN 2010 - 2nd IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management, Oslo / Norway, 18 – 19 November 2010 (PC co-chair)

· FC 2011 - Financial Cryptography and Data Security’11, February 28–March 4, 2011, Bay Gardens Beach Resort, St. Lucia.

· NSS'2011 - The 2011 International Workshop on Networks and Services Security), 7-10 February 2011, Paris, France.

· IFIP SEC 2011 - 26st IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference, 7-9 June 2011 in Lucerne, Switzerland (PC co-Chair).

· PETS 2011 - 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2011), Waterloo, ON, Canada, Jul 27 Jul 29, 2011 (PC co-Chair).

• STM 2011, 7th International Workshop on SECURITY and TRUST MANAGEMENT, 27-28 July 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark
• ISSA 2011 - Information Security for South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 - 17 Aug 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa
• SDM 2011 - 8th VLDB Workshop on SECURE DATA MANAGEMENT, Seattle, September 2, 2011.
• IFIP Summer School 2011, University of Trento, Italy, on 5-9 September 201 (PC co-Chair)
• BioSIG 2011
• DIM 2011 - The Seventh ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management (October 21, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA. Collocated with ACM CCS2011)
• NordSec 2011 - The 16th Nordic Conference in Secure IT Systems, Tallinn, Estonia, 26–28 October 2011
• GI Sicherheit, – Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit, Fachtagung vom 7. – 9. März 2012 Kongresszentrum darmstadtium Schlossgraben 1, 64283 Darmstadt.
• IFIP SEC 2012, 27th IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC 2012) Creta Maris Hotel, Heraklion, Crete, Greece - June 4-6, 2012
• PETS 2012 - 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2012), Vigo, Spain Jul 11 – Jul 13, 2012 (PC co-Chair).

· TrustBus 2012, 9th International Conference on TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN DIGITAL BUSINESS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, September 3 - 7, 2012 (PC co-Chair).

· NordSec 2012, The 18th Nordic Conference in Secure IT Systems, Karlskrona, 31 Oct- 2 Nov 2012.

· CPDP 2013

· BIOSIG 2013

· CMS 2013

· CSS 2013

· EuroPKI 2013

· I3E 2013

· IDMAN 2013 (PC co-Chair)

· IFIP Summer School 2012

· IFIP SEC 2013

· TRUST 2013 -6th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing

· PET 2013

· HAISA 2013

· DBSEC 2013

· TrustBus 2013

· TSCloud 2013

· ARES 2013

· NordSec 2013

www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

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Selection of Books:

Simone Fischer-Hübner, "IT-Security and Privacy-Design and Use of Privacy-Enhancing Security Mechanisms",  Springer Scientific Publishers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  LNCS 1958,  May 2001, ISBN 3-540-42142-4.

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Kai Rannenberg,  Louise Yngström, and  Stefan Lindskog (Editors), Security and Privacy in Dynamic Environments : Proceedings of the IFIP TC-11 21st International Information Security Conference (SEC 2006), 22-24 May 2006, Karlstad/Sweden. published at Springer, 2006.

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Steven Furnell, and Costas Lambrinoudakis (Editors), Trust and Privacy in Digital Business: Third International Conference, Proceedings of TrustBus 2006, Krakow, Poland, September 4-8, 2006, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4083.

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Penny Duquenoy, Albin Zuccato, Leonardo Martucci (Eds.), The Future of Identity in the Information Society, Proceedings of the Third WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6/FIDIS International Summer School, Karlstad University, August 4-10, 2007, published by Springer 2008

Simone Fischer Hübner, Costas Lambrinoudakis, Günther Pernul (Eds.), Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business

6th International Conference, TrustBus 2009, Linz, Austria, September 3-4, 2009, Proceedings, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Subseries: Security and Cryptology , Vol. 5695

Vashek Matyas, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Daniel Cvrcek, Petr Svenda (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth IFIP/FIDIS Internet Security & Privacy Summer School 2008 on "The Future of Identity in the Information Society ? Challenges for Privacy and Security" to be held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Rep., 1-7 September 2008, published by Springer in 2009.

Elisabeth de Leeuw, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Lothar Fritsch (Eds.), “Policies and Research in Identity Management”, Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG11.6 working conference IDMAN 2010, Oslo, Norway, November 2010, published by Springer.

Jan Camenisch, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Yuko Murayama, Carlos Rieder and Armand Portmann (Eds.), “Future Challenges in Security and Privacy for Academia and Industry”: Proceedings of the 26th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, SEC 2011, Lucerne/Switzerland, June 2011, published by Springer.

Jan Camenisch, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Kai Rannenberg (Editors), “Privacy and Identity Management for Life”, Springer, June 2011.

Simone Fischer-Hübner and Nicholas Hopper (Eds.), “Privacy Enhancing Technologies”: 11th International Symposium, PETS 2011, Waterloo, ON, Canada, July 27-29, 2011, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Security and Cryptology) Aug 3, 2011.

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