Michael Waidner is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) and Professor (Chair) for Security in IT at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is also the CEO of the National Research Center for Applied Cyber Security ATHENE. Since 2017 he is also the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the city of Darmstadt. With more than 130 publications, Michael Waidner is one of the preeminent scientists in IT security. He is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe (now known as KIT). Until 2010, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for Security, responsible for the technical security strategy and architecture of the IBM Corporation. Before that, he headed security research at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
