Felix Rinker

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His research focuses on concepts of multi-disciplinary engineering, tool integration in production system engineering and AutomationML.

Matthias Eckhart

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His research interests center around the security in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Bio

Matthias Eckhart received a bachelor’s degree in Internet Technology and a master’s degree in IT & Mobile Security from the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM. His previous work experience includes two years as a research assistant at FH JOANNEUM and as a software developer at NXP Semiconductors. He is currently working towards a PhD degree focusing on CPS security.

Johanna Ullrich

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Her research interests include network security and cloud security, and raising awareness for security and privacy in traditional engineering.

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She received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and a master’s degree in Automation Engineering, both with distinction from the TU Wien. For her master thesis on Header Compression of IPsec in Powerline Networks, she received the diploma prize of the city of Vienna. During her studies, she spent a semester at the Czech Technical University in Prague. In 2016, she obtained a PhD degree with a thesis focusing on side channels and their practical exploitation in attacks; therefore, she is entitled for a promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis (with highest distinctions and awarded by the Austrian president). Besides, she studies law at the University of Vienna. Johanna teaches graduate courses on network and cloud security at University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum as well as FH Campus Wien.

Nicholas Stifter

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His research focuses on the security and sustainability as well as fundamental principles of block chain technologies and smart contracts.

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Nicholas Stifter received a master’s degree in Computer Science Management with distinction and a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Vienna University of Technology. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. on security and maintainability aspects of block chain technologies and smart contracts and his research interests include Nakamoto consensus, distributed agreement protocols and computing education for distributed systems topics.

Edgar Weippl

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His research focuses on applied security concepts of blockchain technology and industrial systems.

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After graduating with a Ph.D. from the TU Wien, Edgar worked in a research startup for two years. He then spent one year teaching as an Assistant Professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant in New York, NY and Albany, NY, and in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 he joined the TU Wien and founded the research center SBA Research together with A Min Tjoa and Markus Klemen. Edgar R. Weippl (CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CSSLP, CMC) is member of the editorial board of Computers & Security (COSE), organizes the ARES conference and is General Chair of SACMAT 2015, PC Chair of Esorics 2015, General Chair of ACM CCS 2016, and PC Chair of ACM SACMAT 2017.

Dietmar Winkler

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His research interests include Software/Systems Engineering, Processes and Process Improvement, Empirical Software Engineering, and Quality Assurance and Quality Management.

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Dietmar Winkler studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology with focus on Software Engineering, Quality Management and Requirements Engineering and received a PhD in computer science in 2015 and a MS in computer science in 2003. From 2010-2017 he worked as project assistant and key researcher for Quality Assurance and Engineering Process improvement in the Christian Doppler Laboratory “Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems” at TU Wien. In 2016 he worked as senior researcher at SBA Research. In 2008, he received a scholarship (by Siemens Austria and the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien) for a 4 months research stay at the Fraunhofer Institute of Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern (DE). In 2007 he worked as a guest researcher at Czech Technical University, Department of Cybernetics in Prague (CZ).

Kristof Meixner

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His research focuses on concepts of software quality, test automation and variability modeling.

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Kristof Meixner received a master’s degree in Business Informatics from Vienna University of Technology. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. on variability aspects of test automation in software and production systems engineering.