Short Biography

Jaap-Henk Hoepman is senior scientist computer security, privacy and identity management at TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. He also holds an associate professor position at the Digital Security group of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Jaap-Henk Hoepman studied computer science at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, and obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam based on work done at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). For several years he worked for the security group of KPN Research, the research division of one of the main Dutch telcos. He then returned to academia as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Twente.

His research into information security and cryptographic protocols is usually insprired by practical problems. He focusses on the design of secure and privacy friendly protocols for the Internet of Things. Apart from that he studies privacy and identity management. He speaks on these topics at national and international congresses and publishes papers in (inter)national journals as well as the popular press. Occasionally he appears in the media as security expert. He is always interested to stimulate debate on the effects of security on society, and the effectiveness of security countermeasures.

He is chair of the IFIP working group 11.2 on "Pervasive System Security", member of the permanent stakeholders group (PSG) of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), co-founded SAFE-NL, and is coordinator of the Kerckhoffs Institute offering a master programme in Computer Security.

In his free time he enjoys making his own music, designing visuals, and practice Okinawan Goju Ryu karate-do.  

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