Florian Skopik

Florian is Senior Scientist and Team Lead of the ICT Security Research Group at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), where he coordinates national and large-scale international research projects, as well as the overall research direction of the team. His main topics are centered on critical infrastructure protection, smart grid security and national cyber security and defense. Due to this research focus, the ICT Security Research Team works in close collaboration with national authorities, such as the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense.

Before joining AIT, Florian was with the Distributed Systems Group at the Vienna University of Technology as a research assistant and post-doctoral research scientist from 2007 to 2011, where he was involved in a number of international research projects dealing with cross-organizational collaboration over the Web. In context of these projects, he also finished his PhD studies. Florian further spent a sabbatical at IBM Research India in Bangalore for several months. He published more than 100 scientific conference papers and journal articles and holds some 20 industry relevant security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), ISA/IEC 62443 Security Specialist, CCNA Security, and ISO27001 Information Security Manager. In 2017 he finished a professional degree in Advanced Computer Security at the Stanford University, USA. In parallel to his studies, he was working at numerous SMEs as firmware developer for microcontroller systems for about 15 years.

Florian is member of various conference program committees and editorial boards, as well as standardization groups, such as ETSI TC Cyber and OASIS CTI. As invited reviewer he frequently evaluates research project proposals for numerous national research funding agencies.

Florian is IEEE Senior Member, Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Member of the International Society of Automation (ISA).