Michael Backes#
| Membership Number: | 7157 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://michaelbackes.eu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7130-9211 |
| X: | @CISPA |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/p/Prof-Dr-Michael-Backes-100063916065329/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-backes-1550305/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Founding director and CEO, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- 2005 Professor, Saarland University
- 2002 - 2005 Research staff, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- Trustworthy AI
- Privacy
- Security
- Cryptography
Honours and Awards
- 2023 ACM Fellow
- 2019 Karl-Heinz Beckurts Preis
- 2018 IEEE Fellow
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate
- 2017 NSA Cybersecurity Research Award
- 2017 IEEE Golden Core Award
- 2017 CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award
- 2014 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2014 IEEE Outstanding Community Service Award
- 2011 IEEE Outstanding Community Service Award
- 2009 MIT TR35
- 2009 ERC Starting Grant
- 2008 IBM Faculty Award
- 2007 Fellow of the German Max Planck Society
- 2005 IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for Linking Formal Verification and Cryptography
- 2005 IBM Research Division Award for contributions to Web Services Security
- 2004 Microsoft Award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies
- 2004 IBM Outstanding Achievement Award for contributions to Enterprise Privacy Architectures
- 2002 VDI Diploma Thesis Award
- 2001 Scholarship of the DFG graduate studies program ”Quality Guarantees for Computer Systems”
