Dr Thomas Gross

• Reader in Systems Security, Director ACE-CSR School of Computing
• Email: thomas.gross@newcastle.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 191 208 8987
• Twitter: @thomas_gross
• Director of the Newcastle Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR)

Thomas Groß is a Reader (associate professor) in System Security in the School of Computing at Newcastle University. He is the Director of Newcastle University Cyber Security & Resilience, a UK Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). He is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Confidentiality-Preserving Security Assurance (CASCAde). Thomas is a member of the UK Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), which he also serves as member of its scientific advisory board and lead for scientific methods. Before he joined Newcastle in 2011, he was a Research Staff Member (RSM) in the Security and Cryptography group of IBM Research - Zurich before that and IBM's Research Relationship Manager for privacy research. Thomas received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 2009. He received his M.Sc. (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science at Saarland University, Germany, in 2004. Thomas is a member of the GI, ACM, IEEE, and IACR, as well as Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation.