WG 3: IT Security, Privacy, Legal and Ethical Framework

Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Detlef Houdeau is Senior Director Business Development at Infineon Technologies AG in the Digital Security Solution department. Since starting his professional career in 1993 at Siemens in the field of semiconductor processes, he has contributed to more than 150 publications. Detlef Houdeau is a member of numerous associations and initiatives, including BDI, BITKOM, ZVEI, Plattform Industrie 4.0, EUROSMART, ECIL and the Charter of Trust.

Professor Jörn Müller-Quade holds the Chair for IT Security at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads its Cryptography and IT Security research group. He is also Director of the FZI Research Center for Information Technology at KIT, spokesperson of the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology, and coordinator of the Programme for Gifted Informatics Students in Karlsruhe. He won 1^st prize in the German IT Security Award of the Horst Görtz Foundation in 2008 and 2014. Professor Müller-Quade is co-initiator and partner in numerous research and industry projects and also a member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Jessica Heesen is in charge of research into media ethics and information technology at the University of Tübingen’s International Center for Ethics in Science and the Humanities (IZEW). This research examines ethical issues relating to freedom of expression in social media along with value-oriented development of artificial intelligence. She obtained her PhD at the University of Stuttgart before gaining a post-doctoral lecturing qualification in philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and is a member of Forum Privacy and Self-Determination in a Digital World (Forum Privacy, BMBF) and Netzwerk Medienethik, the German media ethics network.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Rostalski has been Professor at the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law as well as Managing Director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Cologne since 2018. With a doctorate in law and philosophy, she has been a member of the German Ethics Council since 2020, of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ethics Advisory Board on issues of digital transformation, of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer IAIS, and director of the Center for Global Justice in research cooperation with the University San Juan Bautista in Lima/Peru.