Dr. Annika Selzer

Dr. iur. Annika Selzer is head of the research department "IT Law and Interdisciplinary Privacy Research" at Fraunhofer SIT and co-coordinator of the research area "Legal Aspects of Privacy and IT-Security" at the National Research Center for Applied Cyber Security ATHENE. Her research focuses on IT law, in particular the interdisciplinary interaction of legal and technical aspects of data protection in the context of the use of new technologies. Her research also focuses on the adequacy of data protection measures from a legal, technical, and economic perspective, as well as legal aspects of digitalization and the legal framework of offensive cybersecurity research.

She is also a mentor of the Digital Hub Cybersecurity, a lecturer at the University of Bremen, and the editor of the first GDPR commentary written specifically for students and non-lawyers*. She is (co-)organizer of the recurring workshop "Privacy and Security at Large", which takes place during the GI annual conference. There, she brings together various stakeholders to discuss the appropriate implementation of security and privacy requirements, taking into account the opportunities and risks of new technologies by taking a holistic view from the perspective of computer science, law and business.