Andreas Peter appointed Professor of Safety-Security-Interaction

Cybersecurity expert Prof. Dr Andreas Peter has been appointed to the newly created Chair of Safety-Security-Interaction at the Department of Computing Science.

This is one of eight new professorships acquired by the University of Oldenburg and the Jade University of Applied Sciences as part of the state programme Digitalization Professorships for Lower Saxony. Before coming to Oldenburg, Peter (38) was Professor of IT security at the University of Twente (the Netherlands).

Peter studied mathematics at the Universities of Oldenburg and Cambridge (England) and received his PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2013. He then moved to the University of Twente, where he was first a research fellow and then from 2014 to 2018 a junior professor at the Department of Computer Science.

Peter's research in Oldenburg will focus on the development of security solutions for IT systems in the context of safety-critical systems and the Internet of Things. He is studying the question of how to model security concepts and cyberattacks to improve detection and defence against such attacks. The goal is to develop and deploy customized security solutions that are based on the researched models but also take account of various types of user interaction as well as the functional safety of the systems to be protected.