Christoph Busch

Christoph Busch is Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway. He leads research on trustworthy biometric systems, digital forensics, and privacy-preserving technologies.

His research spans biometrics, face recognition, presentation-attack detection, synthetic-data generation, homomorphic encryption, and deepfake detection. Recent work focuses on morphing-attack detection, fairness-aware quality assessment, and secure template protection. He employs deep learning, vision transformers, and cryptographic techniques to build robust, privacy-centric identity systems.

Professor Busch has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles (2020-2025) in leading venues such as Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Access, and Applied Cognitive Psychology. A clear trend is the integration of synthetic data to improve generalisation and fairness, alongside advancing attack-detection capabilities against morphing and deepfake threats.

He serves on editorial boards and conference organising committees, including BIOSIG and IET Biometrics, and is actively involved in European biometrics policy discussions. He mentors a growing team of doctoral and master’s researchers working on next-generation secure identity technologies.