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Prof. Dr. Henrich C. Pöhls

The junior professorship for Secure Information Systems was held by Prof. Dr. Henrich C. Pöhls from April 1, 2021, to August 31, 2021.

Dr. rer. nat. Henrich C. Pöhls
Room ITZ/IH 136
Innstr. 43
94032 Passau
Fax: +49(0)851/5093212

Appointments on individual basis, please contact me.

Teaching and Other Activities

Henrich C. Pöhls lectures in IT-Security, i.e General IT-Security as well as Secure AI Systems, and in his teaching and research he tries to bridge gaps by conducting interdisciplinary work especially in the fields of IT-Security (esp. cryptography), software development and law:

"The more gaps between those worlds get bridged, the more sound (=safe, secure and legally compliant) ICT-enhanced products and digitally-enhanced environments will be."

Besides teaching he collaborated and lead several successful research projects on security and privacy for Cloud (eg. PRISMACLOUD) & IoT (eg. RERUM and SEMIoTICS). Finally, he is also active in national and international standardisation (eg. editor of ISO/IEC standard series 23264 on Redaction of authentic data in ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 27).

Research Interests

  • Secure AI Systems (increasing the IT-security of AI systems and risk analysis of systems that incorporate AI functions)
  • Integrity protection (legally, cryptographically, organisationally),
  • Redactable & Sanitizable Signatures,
  • Legal implications of Digital Signatures (EU Electronic Signature Legislation - eIDAS),
  • Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) and Data Protection with respect to Authenticity and (Structural) Integrity Protection of the contained Information,
  • Security of Internet-Of-things (IoT),
  • SupplyChain- / SOA- / BusinessProcess-Security,
  • Digitally Signed Microformatted Content and
  • Tree-Based Structured Document Formats (XML-Based).
  • Additional interests:
    • Web-Services, "Web 2.0"
    • Wireless Communications (WLAN, Bluetooth, RFID, etc.)
    • TLS, PKI, and Certificates
    • Networked Smartcards
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