Professor Dr Günter Schäfer
- Member of the secunet Supervisory Board since May 2014
- University Professor, University of Technology Ilmenau/Germany
Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards
- No other memberships
Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises
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Curriculum vitae
Professor Dr Günter Schäfer has been a university professor of computer science at TU Ilmenau since 2005, where he heads the Telematics / Computer Networks department. In addition to his teaching and research duties, he was Dean of Studies (2009 – 2011), Vice Dean (2011 – 2017) and Dean (2017 – 2021) of the Faculty of Computer Science and Automation, Chairman of the Faculty Association for Computer Science of the Federal Republic of Germany (2015 – 2017), liaison lecturer of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (2006 – 2016) and has been a member of the Legal and Security Committee of the Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e. V. (DFN Association) since 2005. In December 2023, Professor Dr Schäfer was elected to the Board of Directors of the DFN Association.
He began his professional career in 1994 as a research assistant at the Institute for Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) after graduating from the Faculty of Computer Science there as a computer scientist. After completing his doctorate (1998) on the subject of “Efficient authentication and key management in high-performance networks”, he moved to the Ecole National Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris in 1999, where he worked on projects to evaluate and optimise the performance of UMTS access networks and on network security in fixed and mobile communications networks.
In July 2000, Professor Dr Schäfer moved to the Department of Communication Networks at TU Berlin, where he continued to teach and research topics relating to network security and mobile communication.
Prizes and awards:
- Thuringian Research Award for Applied Research 2013.
- GI/ITG/VDE Communication Software Award 2013
- German IT Security Award 2010 (3rd place)
- Klaus Tschira Prize for Comprehensible Science 1999
