Rene Mayrhofer's virtual home

About me

PortraitI am a computer scientist with additional interest in physics, philosophy and politics. At the moment, I hold a Guest Professorship in Mobile Computing at University of Vienna, AT. My main research interests are context awareness and security, and I am trying to combine both to create secure systems that are still usable by the "man on the street". Prior to this position, I held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Lancaster, UK, at the computing department, and before that I was with the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, where I got my masters ("Dipl.-Ing.") and PhD (officially Doctor technicae - "Dr. techn.") degrees.

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