Dr. Günther Pernul

Biography

Günther Pernul received both the diploma degree and the doctorate degree (with honors) from the University of Vienna, Austria. Currently he is full professor at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Prior to that he held a similar position with the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a research assistant position with the Department of Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria. He was post doctoral scholar at the Database Systems Research and Development Centre at the University of Florida and at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. His research interests are manifold, covering data and information security aspects, data protection and privacy, data analytics, and advanced database technologies and applications. Günther Pernul is co-author of a text book, has edited or co-edited more than fifteen books and published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings on various information systems topics. He has wide research experience, has participated and lead many National and European funded research projects, acted as reviewer for national and international science foundations, and is serving the international IT research community in several aspects. He coordinated the IPICS international summer school for 3 years, has coordinated the FP7 EU project SPIKE and is currently coordinating the Bavarian research alliance FORSEC and the BMBF project DINGFEST. He has served as reviewer to scientific journals and in editorial boards, as member of program committees of many international conferences and chaired several of them. Among others he recently acted as PC-cochair of ARES 2013, DBSec 2014, Track cochair of WI 2014 and as general chair of ESORICS 2015. For his services to the community he was awarded the 2016 IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Service Award. At the University of Regensburg he was member of the Academic Senate, served as Vice Dean and since October 2015 has been acting as the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics, Information Systems & Real Estate.

Research Interest

His research interests are manifold, covering data and information security aspects, data protection and privacy, data analytics, and advanced database technologies and applications