Reinhard Posch

Reinhard Posch

1971-1979: Graz Research Center.
1974-1984: Assistant professor at Graz University of Technology.
1979 : Leave at Sperry Univac (Roseville, MN, USA).
1984: Approved as Lecturer ("Habilitation") for "Applied Information Processing and Information Technology".
1984: Full Professor. "Applied Information Processing and Communications".
1986-today: Head of the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications Technology TU Graz.
1999-today: Scientific director of the Austrian Secure Information Technology Center (A-SIT).
2001-today: Chief Information Officer (CIO), Government of Austria.
2003-today: Chairmen of the board of trustees of Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC.
2007-today: Chairmen of the Management Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency.

The role of the CIO for the federal government is primarily the strategic coordination of activities in the field of information and communications technology that concern more than one ministry. As such the CIO heads the Austrian eGovernment platform "DIGITAL AUSTRIA" that includes all level of government.
As Head of the Institute he specialised in 'Applied Information Processing and Com- munications Technology'. The main efforts of the Institute and of as scientific director of the Austrian Secure Information Technology Centre are computer security, crypto- graphy, secure hard- and software and eGovernment. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the non-profit foundation Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies SIC which has been donated by Graz University of Technology.

Curriculum Vitae of Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Reinhard Posch (PDF)



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