Prof. Dr. Michael Backes

Michael Backes holds the chair for Information Security and Cryptography at Saarland University, and he is a Max Planck Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. He obtained the offer from Saarland University at the age of 26. He authored more than 100 scientific publications and received several scientific awards, such as the Microsoft Privacy Enhancing Technology Award, the IBM Faculty Award and the ERC Starting Grant. In 2009, he was named one of the best 35 researchers in the world under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review. The newspaper Capital named him the leading German researcher under the age of 40. Recently, he was honored as one of the 50 most important public figures in IT in Germany by the newspaper Computerwoche.