Hagen Lauer

Hagen Lauer is a Professor of IT Security at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (University of Applied Sciences). His expertise spans system security, cyber resilience, IT forensics, and formal methods. He teaches courses such as Decentralized Security, Computer Forensics, and Blockchain Fundamentals.

• Email: hagen.lauer@mni.thm.de
• Office: A20.1.22, Wiesenstraße 14, Gießen
• Contact: +49 (0) 641 309 2343

Education: Doctorate in Computer Science from Monash University (2020). Previous affiliations include the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), where he served as acting department head until his appointment at THM Mittelhessen in 2022.

Research Focus: Lauer's work emphasizes cyber resilience in autonomous systems, security protocols for energy grids, and formal verification of stratified architectures. His contributions address trust in virtualized platforms, decentralized IoT standards, and hypervisor-based attestation mechanisms.

Publication Trends: Recent works focus on cyber-physical security in energy systems, formal logic for stratified architectures, and user-centric attestation in distributed environments. Topics include autonomous agents, smart grid protection, and containerization security.