M. Angela Sasse is the Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum. She obtained an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University and a PhD in Computer Science from Birmingham University. From 1990-2018 she was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. She started researching usability issues in IT security in the late nineties, and her 1999 paper with Anne Adams, Users are Not the Enemy, is the most cited paper on the topic. She is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary security research and led the UK Reseach Institute in Socio-Technical Securiity from 2012-2018. In 2018, she moved to Ruhr University Bochum to establish the Chair in Human-Centred Security. She is a Speaker of the Exzellenzclusterprojekt CASA and of the interdisciplinary Graduate School SecHuman. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK in 2015, and to the NRW Akademie in 2021.
M Angela Sasse
M. Angela Sasse is the Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum. She obtained an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University and a PhD in Computer Science from Birmingham University. From 1990-2018 she was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. She started researching usability issues in IT security in the late nineties, and her 1999 paper with Anne Adams, Users are Not the Enemy, is the most cited paper on the topic. She is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary security research and led the UK Reseach Institute in Socio-Technical Securiity from 2012-2018. In 2018, she moved to Ruhr University Bochum to establish the Chair in Human-Centred Security. She is a Speaker of the Exzellenzclusterprojekt CASA and of the interdisciplinary Graduate School SecHuman. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK in 2015, and to the NRW Akademie in 2021.
M Angela Sasse