Robert Riemann
PhD in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Physics
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.
- Location
- Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
- robert@riemann.cc
- Website
- https://blog.riemann.cc
- Mastodon
- @rriemann
- Robert Riemann
- GitHub
- rriemann
Experience
– present
Programme Officer, CNECT E.2 Cloud and Software at European Commission
Highlights
- Managing EU policy programmes concerning cloud and software
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Head of Sector ‘Digital Transformation’ in the Technology & Privacy Unit at European Data Protection Supervisor
Highlights
- Coordinating the IT team of the EDPS
- Managing the procurement of IT services for the EDPS
- Managing the implementation of new IT projects
- Coordinating with other organisations to develop common approaches and ensure interoperability
- Developing and Maintaining the EDPS IT Lab to carry out technical inspections
- Advising Senior Management on Technical Issues
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Technology and Security Officer at European Data Protection Supervisor
Highlights
- Monitoring technology
- Drafting IT policy
- Inspecting/auditing IT projects
- Promoting innovation (in-house)
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IT Policy Trainee at European Data Protection Supervisor
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Guest Researcher at Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin
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Teaching Fellow at INSA Lyon
Teaching 1st and 2nd year engineering students (Grande Ecole) in Java programming.
Highlights
- Teaching courses in French and English language
- Preparing, conducting and assessing of exams
- Mentoring of student projects
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Doctoral Researcher at Inria
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.
Highlights
- Building a distributed online voting prototype.
- Publishing 3 peer-reviewed research papers.
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Doctoral Researcher at Lab M2P2
Developing methods for Fluid Mechanics Simulations with support for High Performance Computing (parallelisation). The doctoral studies were discontinued.
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Working Student at atech GmbH
Administrating workstations and server machines, installing and maintaining of source code infrastructure, developing cross-plattform C++ code, prototyping new product features.
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Working Student at DESY
Statistical data analysis (Big Data) for ATLAS project at CERN.
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Working Student at University of Rostock
Developing a system to run automated measurements.
Volunteer
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Elected Trustee at Bringing Europeans Together Association
Highlights
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Chief Technology Officer at Bringing Europeans Together Association
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.
– present
Founder and Project Lead at EU OS
Developing an alternative OS to Microsoft Windows for the public sector
Highlights
- IT architecture.
- Strategy.
- Concept.
- Public relations and community management.
Awards
Global Privacy and Data Protection Award (Category: Innovation) from International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC, precessor of Global Privacy Assembly)
Runner-Up Best Student Paper from 32nd International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2017)
PhD-Day Best Presentation Award from Center of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of Service Lyon
Languages
- German
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Fluency: Native speaker
- English
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Fluency: Full professional proficiency
- French
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Fluency: Full professional proficiency
- Italian
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Fluency: Professional working proficiency
Education
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Philosophical Doctor (PhD) in Computer Science from École Normale Supérieure of Lyon with GPA of N/A
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Master in Physics from Humboldt University of Berlin with GPA of 1.7
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Bachelor in Physics from Humboldt University of Berlin with GPA of 1.7
Interests
- Dancing
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