The Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems (PEPSys) group at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg was established in 2024 and is led by Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Pallas. Meet him and our techno-legal research team!

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Pallas

EXDIGIT professor of Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems

A computer scientist and engineer from the heart with long-standing experience in techno-legal research, Frank heads and coordinates the PEPSys group. His research interests comprise all sub-fields of privacy engineering and policy-aligned systems – from core technical concepts like anonymity guarantees and performance experiments to technically well-founded legal examinations.

For more information, see his profile page.

MSc. Nicola Leschke

Research Associate

Nicola is research associate in the PEPSys group at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and conducts research in the domain of Privacy Engineering, particularly focusing on the right to data access and data portability as well as on transparency.

More information available here.

Dr. Narges Mehran (associated member)

Research Associate (PostDoc)

Narges is research associate (PostDoc) at Salzburg Research and associated member of the PEPSys group at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on real-world distributed technologies, energy efficiency, grid greening, and electrifying everything.

More information is available at her profile page.

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