Starting as a Professor at WHS

Today, I am very happy to begin a new chapter as a professor at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in beautiful Bocholt.

The past years have been an amazing time and I am very grateful to everybody who supported me along the way. In particular, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Sven Mayer, the Human-AI Interaction Group, the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security (RC Trust), and TU Dortmund University for the opportunity to continue my research as a PostDoc. During this period, I was admitted to the Young Academy of TU Dortmund University, following a successful research grant proposal.

Equally, I am deeply grateful to Prof. Dr. Stefan Schneegass and the University of Duisburg-Essen, for giving me the opportunity become a doctoral student. Thank you everybody with whom I could collaborate ver the years, while doing research, teaching, sharing an office, and exchanging ideas.

At the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, I will continue my work at the intersection of usable security, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and extended reality. I am especially interested in how intelligent systems can better understand and support people, how agentic AI can assist with security-related tasks, and how implicit interaction can make security more seamless.