Günther Pernul

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Bio

Günther Pernul received both the diploma degree in 1985 and the doctorate degree (with honours) in 1989 from the University of Vienna, Austria. Currently he is full professor at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Prior to that he held a similar position with the University of Essen, Germany, and a research assistant position with the Department of Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria. During 1990 and 1991 he was post doctoral scholar at the Database Systems Research and Development Centre at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, as well as at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He also worked as a consultant for Database- and Information Systems for Wang Austria and the United Nations Organisation in Vienna. His research interests are web-based information systems, new media, information systems security, advanced database applications, and applied cryptography.

Günther Pernul is co-author of a database text book, has edited or co-edited more than ten books, published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings on various information systems topics and has participated in European funded research under ESPRIT, ACTS and IST frameworks. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association of Information Systems (AIS), the IEEE Computer Society, the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), member of the IFIP WG 11.3 (Database Security) and observer of the IFIP WG 11.8 (Security Education). He serves on the steering board of the Communications and Multimedia Security conference series and is founding editor of the conference series Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web, since 2000) and Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (Trustbus, since 2004).

For more information please see http://www-wiwi.uni-regensburg.de/Forschung/Publikationen/Günther-Pernul.html.en