Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the Chair of Cybersecurity in Critical Networked Infrastructures (https://cyberni.fr/) at the elite engineering school Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Atlantique in Rennes, Brittany, France. He is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. He supervises 3 PhD students at Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (https://germany.acm.org/), he coordinates the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (https://future-industry.org/).

Marc-Oliver’s research focus is on a holistic approach to cybersecurity. He works on security-by-design, anomaly detection, human-in-the-loop, and automation. His goal is making cybersecurity manageable, resulting in highly resilient and reliable systems. Marc-Oliver publishes regularly in the network and service management and security communities.

Marc-Oliver is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer. He developed multiple awarded teaching concepts and teaches continuously at university level since 2004. Besides specialized audience, he runs multiple activities for fostering a dialog between science and society, including https://talk.cybercni.fr, https://future-iot.org, and https://being-human-with-algorithms.org.