XAVIER HUYSMANS
Legal Researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT - ICRI

Xavier Huysmans (1978) obtained his law degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2001. He spent the academic year 2000-2001 as an Erasmus exchange student at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany). From September 2001 till December 2004, Xavier worked as lawyer at the Brussels bar (Daem & Cools, Janson Baugniet and Altius).
Xavier joined K.U.Leuven ICRI in January 2005, where he works as legal researcher in the field of Privacy and Data Protection.
Xavier has mainly worked on the topics of identity, identity management and e-government in several European and Belgian Flemish research projects. His main topic of interest lays on privacy-friendly identity management in eGovernment and beyond.

Since April 2007, besides his work in IBBT IDEM, Xavier heads the work package on eGovernment of the FIDIS project.

Dr. MARTIN MEINTS
Researcher - Independent Centre for Privacy Protection

Dr. Martin Meints studied chemistry and computer science at the University Kiel. He worked in various enterprises and public organisations as IT project manager and in technical management functions. Main focus of his latest work was preparation and implementation of security concepts for large private networks (LAN and WAN) and integrated mobile computing solutions basing on the methodology of the Baseline Protection Manual from BSI, the German Federal Office for Information Security. Since 2004 researcher for the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ICPP); he is mainly involved in the project “FIDIS – Future of Identity in the Information Society”.

Dr. LORENZ MULLER
Researcher, department of technology and informatics - University of Applied Science Berne

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Muller is the head of the R&D and technology transfer section in the department for technology and informatics of the University of Applied Science Berne.

With a background in mathematics, high energy physics and neuroscience he specialized in cryptology, biometry, authentication technologies and general computer security. After the PhD work at the European high energy physics centre CERN in Geneva, he pursued his research at the Stanford University and later at the Berne University as assistant professor. He then changed into private industry to lead the internal technology education within the ascom group. In this function he was coordinator of an EU-project in the COMETT programme. Later he became professor and head of the R&D activities at the department of technology and informatics of the University of Applied Science Berne. He has published numerous articles in different fields, is inventor of several patented devices in computer security and biometry and won together with Marcel Jacomet the prestigious ETH/McKinsey Venture business price. He is co-founder and member of the administrative board of the e-security company AXSionics Inc. He also initiated the Foundation for Technological Innovation (STI) which promotes and fundsHigh Tech start-up companies.