Andreas U. Schmidt

Andreas U. Schmidt

Area Head for Security R&D
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Andreas U. Schmidt is Area Head for Security at CREATE-NET in Trento, Italy. Before that he was a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt, Germany. After studying mathematics and physics at the University Frankfurt, Germany, he received his doctorate in mathematical physics in 1999. Research stays led him to Durban, South Africa, and Pisa.

Andreas worked on a broad spectrum of subjects ranging from electronic signatures and long-term security of digital documents to information economy and market models for digital goods. His current interests focus on the creation and mediation of trust between technical systems and humans in mobile situations, and trust in the future Internet. Andreas is an active member of the Trusted Computing Group, published numerous research papers on applied TC, is a co-inventor on some patents in communication security. He initiated EU FP7 project proposals and was work package leader in the STREP NanoDataCenters. Andreas is also active in the Trust, Security, and Dependability working group of the NESSI European Technology Platform. Now he is involved in the CONSEQUENCE STREP.

In 2006, Andreas co-founded <href=“http://www.novalyst.de”>novalyst IT AG</a>, an independent IT consultancy with focus on communication security. More information on him is found on his personal homepage andreas.schmidt.novalyst.de

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