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Scientific Manager of the IGMR at the University of Bremen. Member of the Board of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) in Berlin. Legal Advisor at VDE e.V. in Frankfurt (Main), CERT@VDE. Managing Director of Certavo GmbH – international compliance management. Visiting Professor at Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia. Personal membership in the German Federal Association for IT Security TeleTrusT and Member of the Presidium Working Group on Data Protection and IT Security of the German Informatics Society (GI). Author of numerous publications on cybersecurity and data protection. Publisher of the Legal Handbook Cybersecurity, published by Beck, Munich, and publisher of the academic journal International Cybersecurity Law Review (ICLR) by Springer. Guest researcher and teaching activities in Tokyo, Moscow, Nice, Dar es Salaam, Porto Alegre, Jerusalem, Beijing and Los Angeles. Numerous consulting and expert opinion activities, including the Max-Planck-Society, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Corporation for International Cooperation, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Defence.
On May 5, 2020, a new draft of the IT-Sicherheitsgesetz 2.0 (IT Security Law 2.0, “IT-SiG 2.0”) was published, which has already been the subject of several legal discussions. In summary, the legislator intends to make changes and extensions to multiple legal acts, including Gesetz über das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Federal Cyber Security Authority Law, “BSIG”), Telekommunikationsgesetz (Telecommunications Law, “TKG”), Telemediengesetz (Telemedia Law, “TMG”) and Außenwirtschaftsverordnung (Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance, “AWV”).