Short Bio
Jan Jürjens is a Professor at the Chair for Software Engineering
(LS 14), Department for Computer Science, Technical University
Dortmund (Germany), the Scientific Coordinator "Enterprise
Engineering" and Attract research group leader at the Fraunhofer
Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST (Dortmund), and a
Senior Member of Robinson College (Univ. Cambridge, UK). He is
currently supervising a research group consisting of 2 Postdocs and 10
PhD students. He has been PI of several projects financed by
Microsoft Research (Cambridge), British Telecom, and EPSRC, and
Scientific Director of an Integrated Project financed by the EU within
FP7, Future and Emerging Technologies Programme. The projects led by
him as PI amount to a total budget of more than 4 million EUR.
Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at The Open University (the
British distance university), as well as Royal Society Industrial
Fellow at Microsoft Research Cambridge and non-stipendiary Research
Fellow at Robinson College (Univ. Cambridge). Before that, he
coordinated the Competence Center for IT-Security at the chair for
Software & Systems Engineering, TU Munich (Germany). Doctor of
Philosophy in Computing from the University of Oxford and author of
"Secure Systems Development with UML" (Springer, 2005; Chinese
translation: Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2009) and various
publications mostly on computer security and software engineering,
totalling more than 2000 citations (Google Scholar,
Apr. 2010). Founding chair of the working group on "Formal Methods and
Software Engineering for Safety and Security (FoMSESS)" within the
German Society for Informatics (GI) and member of the executive board
of the Division of Safety and Security within the GI, the executive
board of the committee on Modeling of the GI, the advisory board of
the Bavarian Competence Center for Safety and Security, the working
group on e-Security of the Bavarian regional government, and the IFIP
Working Group 1.7 "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and
Design". Much of his work is done in cooperation with industrial
partners including Microsoft Research (Cambridge), O2 (Germany), BMW,
HypoVereinsbank, Infineon, Deutsche Telekom, Munich Re, IBM-Rational,
Deutsche Bank, Allianz. More information can be found at
http://jan.jurjens.de .
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Employment
- 09/2009 - ongoing: Professor, Department of Computer Science, Technical University Dortmund.
- 09/2009 - ongoing: Research group leader, Fraunhofer ISST, Dortmund
- 10/2008 - 08/2009: Royal Society Industrial Fellow at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC).
- 10/2008 - 08/2009: non-stipendiary Research Fellow at Robinson College (Univ. Cambridge).
- 10/2006 - 08/2009: Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, The Open University.
- 10/2001 - 09/2006: Department of Informatics, TU München
Major research visits / Visiting affiliations
- 09/2009 - ongoing: Senior Member, Robinson College (Univ. Cambridge).
- 08/2007 - 07/2009: Visiting Scientist, Software and Systems Engineering, TU Munich (Germany). (Unpaid role within the Royal Society Joint International Project)
- May - July 2007: Software and Systems
Engineering, TU Munich (Germany). Visiting Manfred Broy.
- May - August 2000: Bell Labs, Palo Alto (Lucent Tech.). Visiting M. Abadi.
Awards
- Werner-von-Siemens-Medaille, Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring, 13.12.2004
Degrees
- DPhil (Oxford PhD), supervised by Prof.
Samson Abramsky, FRS, supported by the Studienstiftung
des deutschen Volkes and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
Thesis on Principles for Secure Systems Design published by Springer (later translated to Chinese by Tsinghua University Press, Beijing). The first two years of my PhD studies were spent at LFCS, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, GB.
- Masters in Mathematics with minor subject Computer Science
at the University of Bremen
supported by the Studienstiftung
des deutschen Volkes
resulting in a Diplom (German Masters degree). Diplom thesis in categorical model theory which later resulted in a publication in the Journal for Pure and Applied Algebra. As part of the studies, I attended lectures in Part IIb/III of the Mathematical Tripos at University of Cambridge
