About me

I am a computer scientist with additional interest in physics, philosophy and politics. At the moment, I hold a Professorship at Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in the Mobile Computing degree programme. I act also as security consultant, software architect, and manage the Gibraltar firewall development at eSYS GmbH. Previously, I held a Guest Professorship in Mobile Computing at University of Vienna, AT and before that a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Lancaster, UK. 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". I received my venia docendi (Habilitation) from University of Vienna, AT, and my masters ("Dipl.-Ing.") and PhD (officially Doctor technicae - "Dr. techn.") degrees from Johannes Kepler University of Linz, AT.

Contact

Email: private (rene@mayrhofer.eu.org), university (rene.mayrhofer@fh-hagenberg.at), security consulting (rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at), or Debian (rmayr@debian.org) email adress, OpenPGP signed and possibly encrypted email is preferred.
VoIP: sip:+43780121121@sip.yesss.at

I update this web page irregularly as I work on new projects. More content might be added within the next few weeks, months or eons. My email inbox is often swamped, so please be patient when waiting for replies. Although I used to be able to respond to every email, this is unfortunately no longer possibly. I typically read most emails, though (unless they look like Spam to my filter or me or are in any way abusive).