Board
and Advisory Board
ATHENE-Board
The institutions participating in ATHENE are represented on the Board.
The Advisory Board is composed of internationally recognised and highly qualified cybersecurity experts from business, industry and research.
Representatives
Prof. Michael Waidner
Fraunhofer SIT
Chair of the Board
Strategy & Research
Dr. Matthias Unbescheiden
Fraunhofer IGD
Deputy Chair of the Board
Startups
Dr. Michael Kreutzer
Fraunhofer SIT
COO
Administration & Infrastructure
Prof. Mira Mezini
TU Darmstadt
Early-career Researchers
Prof. Haya Schulmann
Goethe University Frankfurt
Science Communications & Collaboration
Prof. Andreas Heinemann
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Innovation & Transfer
Deputy Representatives
Prof. Marc Fischlin
TU Darmstadt
Prof. Jörn Kohlhammer
Fraunhofer IGD
Prof. Christian Rathgeb
Darmstadt University of Applied Siences
CEO/COO
Prof. Michael Waidner
CEO
Dr. Michael Kreutzer
COO
Guests
MinR'in Dr. Ulrike Mattig
HMWK
MinR'in Dr. Heike Prasse
BMBF
Advisory Board
Prof. Yehuda Afek
Deputy Chair of the ATHENE Advisory Board
Professor of Computer Science
Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Prof. Elisa Bertino
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Professor at the Department of Computer Science | Research Director of CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Dr. Jan Camenisch
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Head of Research
Dfinity Foundation, Thalwil, Switzerland
Guus Dekkers
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Chief Technology Officer
TESCO PLC, London, United Kingdom
Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Professor of Computer Science | Head of Privacy & Security (PriSec) Research Group
Karlstad University, Sweden
Prof. Felix Freiling
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Professor of Computer Science
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Prof. Igor Podebrad
Chair of the ATHENE Advisory Board
Director, Office of the CISO
Google Germany GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Prof. Reinhard Posch
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Chief Information Officer of the Austrian Federal Government
Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort, Wien, Austria
Prof. Bart Preneel
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Professor of Computer Science | Head of Research Group COSIC
University of Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Awais Rashid
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Professor of Cyber Security | Director EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Dr. Ralf Schneider
ATHENE Advisory Board Member
Group CIO Allianz
Allianz SE, München, Germany
