Prof. Dr. Hagen Lauer has taken up teaching and research at the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science (MNI) at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) for the winter semester. His professorship in "IT Security" focuses on information security and the cyber resilience of critical infrastructures, along with aspects of computer forensics and systems security.

Lauer is a specialist in information security, cyber defense, and the resilience of critical infrastructures. He is already familiar with THM from his student days, having earned his Master's degree in Computer Science in Giessen in 2014. His doctoral thesis, "Security and Trust in Virtualized Environments," submitted to Monash University in Melbourne in 2020, addresses the security and trustworthiness of cloud solutions using trusted computing technologies and formal methods for the design and verification of highly secure, complex systems. With this expertise, he initially worked in industry, later for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and most recently at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT). There, Lauer was a group and business unit leader for "Secure Intelligent Energy Systems," and later deputy and acting head of the Cyber-Physical Systems Security department.

His most recent research activities were at the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence "Integrated Energy Systems" (CINES) and in projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research on AI-based detection and resilient prevention of attacks in cyber-physical systems. He also publishes on these topics in international journals, specialist publications, and the daily press. In his professorship, Lauer aims to bring the results of international research and development to the region and further develop them at THM .