{"basics":{"name":"Robert Riemann","label":"PhD in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Physics","picture":"https://blog.riemann.cc/assets/img/me.jpg","email":"robert@riemann.cc","website":"https://blog.riemann.cc","summary":"I am keen to strengthen human rights and resiliance of democractic societies in the cyberspace with open source, open standards and (international) collaboration. I want to deepen my knowledge in technology policy to help constructing bridges to overcome the digital divide in the new age of information.\n","location":{"city":"Ixelles","countryCode":"BE","region":"Brussels"},"profiles":[{"network":"Mastodon","username":"@rriemann","url":"https://chaos.social/@rriemann"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"Robert Riemann","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/rriemann/"},{"network":"Github","username":"rriemann","url":"https://github.com/rriemann"}]},"work":[{"company":"European Commission","position":"Programme Officer, CNECT E.2 Cloud and Software","website":"https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/communications-networks-content-and-technology_en","startDate":"2026-01-01","highlights":["Managing EU policy programmes concerning cloud and software"]},{"company":"European Data Protection Supervisor","position":"Head of Sector ‘Digital Transformation’ in the Technology & Privacy 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in Berlin","position":"Guest Researcher","website":"https://www.hiig.de/","startDate":"2017-07-01","endDate":"2017-08-31"},{"company":"INSA Lyon","position":"Teaching Fellow","website":"https://www.insa-lyon.fr/","startDate":"2015-09-01","endDate":"2017-08-31","summary":"Teaching 1st and 2nd year engineering students (Grande Ecole) in Java programming.\n","highlights":["Teaching courses in French and English language","Preparing, conducting and assessing of exams","Mentoring of student projects"]},{"company":"Inria","position":"Doctoral Researcher","website":"https://www.inria.fr/","startDate":"2014-10-01","endDate":"2017-09-30","summary":"Researching novel distributed (P2P) protocols for trustworthy aggregation of confidential data with applications to online voting and online lottery taking inspiration from BitTorrent and Bitcoin.\n","highlights":["Building a distributed online voting prototype.","Publishing 3 peer-reviewed research papers."]},{"company":"Lab 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Student","website":"https://www.physik.uni-rostock.de/","startDate":"2010-09-01","endDate":"2010-09-30","summary":"Developing a system to run automated measurements.\n"}],"volunteer":[{"organization":"Bringing Europeans Together Association","position":"Elected Trustee","website":"https://www.beta-europe.org/","startDate":"2018-10-01","endDate":"2024-06-01"},{"organization":"Bringing Europeans Together Association","position":"Chief Technology Officer","website":"https://www.beta-europe.org/","startDate":"2015-07-01","endDate":"2018-09-30","summary":"Supporting EU politics simulations in many European cities.","highlights":["Developing customised website CMS for network partners in Italy, France, Slovakia, Portugal and Poland.","Installing and maintaining of intranet for network partners.","Training of network partners in IT matters."]},{"organization":"EU OS","position":"Founder and Project Lead","website":"https://eu-os.eu","startDate":"2025-01-01","summary":"Developing an alternative OS to Microsoft Windows for the public sector","highlights":["IT architecture.","Strategy.","Concept.","Public relations and community management."]}],"education":[{"institution":"École Normale Supérieure of Lyon","area":"Computer Science","studyType":"Philosophical Doctor (PhD)","startDate":"2014-06-01","endDate":"2017-09-30","gpa":"N/A"},{"institution":"Humboldt University of Berlin","area":"Physics","studyType":"Master","startDate":"2010-10-01","endDate":"2013-03-31","gpa":"1.7"},{"institution":"Humboldt University of Berlin","area":"Physics","studyType":"Bachelor","startDate":"2007-10-01","endDate":"2010-09-30","gpa":"1.7"}],"awards":[{"title":"Global Privacy and Data Protection Award (Category: Innovation)","date":"2019-10-22","awarder":"International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC, precessor of Global Privacy Assembly)","summary":null},{"title":"Runner-Up Best Student Paper","date":"2017-05-31","awarder":"32nd International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2017)"},{"title":"PhD-Day Best Presentation Award","date":"2016-06-09","awarder":"Center of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of Service Lyon"}],"skills":[{"name":"Web Development","level":"Master","keywords":["HTML","CSS","Javascript"]}],"languages":[{"language":"German","fluency":"Native speaker"},{"language":"English","fluency":"Full professional proficiency"},{"language":"French","fluency":"Full professional proficiency"},{"language":"Italian","fluency":"Professional working proficiency"}],"interests":[{"name":"Dancing","keywords":["Swing/Lindy Hop","Tango"]},{"name":"Publishing","keywords":["Websites","Podcasts"]},{"name":"Travelling","keywords":["Couchsurfing","Backpacking"]},{"name":"Typography","keywords":["LaTeX","Pandoc"]},{"name":"Photography"},{"name":"Music","keywords":["Choir Singing","Guitar Playing"]}]}