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Simone Fischer-Hübner

Director of School

Simone Fischer-Hübner is the Director of the SIGS-CyberSec industrial Graduate school. She has been a full professor in Computer Science at Karlstad University since 2000, specialized on cybersecurity, privacy-enhancing technologies and usable security and privacy, and is also a part-time guest professor at Chalmers University of Technology.

She has been the coordinator of the Swedish IT Security Network for PhD students (SWITS), which she co-founded in 2001, and is also the Director of the Cybercampus Sweden Postgraduate School, and was previously the scientific coordinator for the EU Horizon MSCA doctoral network Privacy&Us. Moreover, she is the Swedish representative of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) TC 11 (Technical Committee on Information Security and Privacy Protection) and is the IFIP TC 11 vice chair.

Leonardo Martucci

Co-Director of School

Kurt Tutschku

Director of Studies

Kurt Tutschku is a professor of telecommunication systems at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). He received his Ph.d. and Habilitation degree in Computer Science in 1999 and 2008 from the University of Würzburg, Germany. Kurt worked in Japan (National Institute for Information and Communication Technology, NICT, 2008) and was a professor at the University of Vienna as the Chair of Future Communication (2008-2013).

His research interests are now centered on the topics of secure and distributed systems and include future generation software-defined networks and cloud systems (incl. NFV and SDN-based networks), secure and distributed service marketplaces (incl. energy marketplaces), Blockchain algorithms, security and confidentiality in digital systems, digital sovereignty, and data privacy in service chains in edge- and cloud-based systems.

He is leading multiple funded academic and industry collaborations in this area. He served as the General Chair of the IEEE Conference on NFV-SDN from 2017 to 2022. He has advised more than 50 M.Sc. theses and is currently supervising five Ph.D. students.

Alberto Giaretta

Director of Communication

Alberto Giaretta is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Örebro University, funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Örebro University, Sweden, and BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Padova, Italy. He currently serves as co-director of the AI, Robotics, and Cybersecurity Center (ARC), as co-director of the Collaborative AI and Robotics (CoAIRob) Industrial PhD School, and as Director of Communication for the Swedish Industrial Graduate School in Cybersecurity (SIGS-Cybersec).

His research focuses on cybersecurity and its intersection with artificial intelligence and robotics. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Computer Networks (ComNet), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC-CS). One of his works, which has been covered by the MIT Technology Review magazine, investigates the challenges of storing digital information inside the DNA of bacteria and physically delivering this information to a destination.

In SIGS-Cybersec, he is the supervisor of Enna Basic, Epiroc.

Ulrik Franke

Management team

I am a senior lecturer at the Swedish Defence University and an associate professor (docent) in electrical engineering with a specialization in dependable information systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. From 2023 to 2025 I was also an adjunct professor at KTH. I hold an MSc in Engineering Physics from KTH, an MA in Practical Philosophy from Stockholm University, and a PhD in Industrial Information and Control Systems from KTH. I am also a major in the Swedish army reserve.

In SIGS-CyberSec I am the main supervisor of PhD-student Emil Larsson, and the representative for the Swedish Defence University in the management group and steering committee.

Before joining the Swedish Defence University I was a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and before that I was a senior scientist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. I have also been a guest researcher at insurer Länsförsäkringar, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), and Istituto per le Applicazioni del calcolo ‘Mauro Picone’ in Naples.

In my research, I am interested in the interplay between technology and society. A few particular interests are algorithmic transparency, cyber situational awareness, cybersecurity economics, and enterprise architecture. My work has received awards from the NATO Science & Technology Organization, the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, and the Royal Society of Naval Sciences.