Dr.-Ing. Jens Leicht

I am a Research Associate (PostDoc) in the Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems (PEPSys) group at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria. My current research focuses on privacy-preserving processing of electricity data from smart meters. This particularly includes:

• investigating the relation between anonymization and data utility in the context of electricity data
• metrics-based privacy-utility trade-offs for general anonymization schemes
• domain-specific approaches for anonymization and privacy-preserving analytics of electricity data

As part of the DAWN (Data-driven Analysis and Optimization of Low Voltage Networks) project I investigate the impact of privacy-enhancing technologies (esp. anonymization) on the utility of power data.

Contact me at jens.leicht@plus.ac.at

Signature Publications

• Leicht, Jens. PriPoCoG: A Prolog-Based Framework for Handling GDPR-Compliant Privacy Policies, dissertation, 2026

• Leicht, Jens and Lukasewycz, Julien and Heisel, Maritta. PriPoCoG: Empowering End-Users’ Data Protection Decisions in International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 2025

• Leicht, Jens and Wagner, Marvin and Heisel, Maritta. Creating Privacy Policies from Data-Flow Diagrams in ESORICS 2023 International Workshops, 2023

• Leicht, Jens and Heisel, Maritta and Gerl, Armin. PriPoCoG: Guiding Policy Authors to Define GDPR-Compliant Privacy Policies in International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, 2022

• Leicht, Jens and Heisel, Maritta A Survey on Privacy Policy Languages: Expressiveness Concerning Data Protection Regulations in 12th CMI Conference on Cybersecurity and Privacy (CMI), 2019

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I received my Master’s degree in Applied Computer Science (specialization in distributed, dependable systems) from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2018. My Master’s thesis, titled Privacy Policy Specification Framework for Addressing End-Users’ Privacy Requirements, sparked my interest in the privacy and data protection field. In 2025 I successfully defended by PhD (Dr.-Ing.) with the title PriPoCoG: A Prolog-Based Framework for Handling GDPR-Compliant Privacy Policies at the distributed systems research group at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In January 2026, I joined the DAWN (Data-driven Analysis and Optimization of Low Voltage Networks) project as a research associate (PostDoc) at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.