Christian Reuter joined emergenCITY’s Board of Directors on October 1. The computer science professor at the Chair of Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) at TU Darmstadt takes on the role of Program Area Lead “Information”.

Christian Reuter has been Principal Investigator at emergenCITY in the Program Areas Information and City and Society since the center’s inception in 2020. His research focuses on Cybersecurity and Privacy, Peace and Conflict research and Human-Computer Interaction. In emergenCITY, he and his team are researching digital self-organization in crises and digital warning systems from the perspective of Human-Computer Interaction.

The computer scientist attaches great importance to interdisciplinary collaboration. He is Dean of the Department of Computer Science and a second member of the Department of Social and Historical Sciences.

“Cooperation between disciplines is an inherent part of issues in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in crises, as the concerns of those affected, the authorities and technical ideas need to be brought together as symbiotically as possible,” said Christian Reuter. “We want to pay particular attention to this in the Program Area Coordination.”

Christian Reuter will be supported in the emergenCITY Program Area by Markus Henkel, doctoral student in emergenCITY, and Marc-André Kaufhold, post-doctoral researcher, who currently also holds the “Knowledge Engineering” professorship in the Department of Computer Science as deputy professor. Both will be responsible for coordinating the Program Area “Information”.

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