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Education
Current academic tasks
Academic tasks in the past
Courses taught
Courses developed
Lectures
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Memberships
Recent publications
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Dr. Stephan G. Humer

Research Director and Founder, Internet Sociology Department
Principal Investigator, Digital Security Research

Digital Class, Berlin University of the Arts

Education

Dr. phil. (summa cum laude) in Sociology (winner, German Science and Humanities Council competition) Free University of Berlin (winner, federal and state initiative for excellence), 2007 (Ph.D. equivalent)

Graduated in Sociology, Psychology and Journalism (German grade called „Diplom-Soziologe“), Free University of Berlin, 2005 (equivalent to a Master´s degree with honors)

Pre-diploma graduation („Vordiplom“) in Sociology, Free University of Berlin, 2002 (comparable to a Bachelor degree)

Current academic tasks

Research Director, Digital Class (several winners, ARS Electronica PRIX 2008 and 2009), Berlin University of the Arts [since 2008]

Founder of the Internet Sociology Department (“Arbeitsbereich Internetsoziologie”), Berlin University of the Arts [2008/official expansion with a perennial perspective in 2012]

Affiliated Research Member: DIGAREC (University of Potsdam) [since 2009]

Undergraduate supervisor, Berlin University of the Arts [since 2007]

Graduate supervisor, Berlin University of the Arts [since 2006]

Lecturer, Berlin University of the Arts, teaching Networked Systems Theory [since 2006]

Academic tasks in the past

Research Director, Digitization Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam [2009 - 2011]

Senior Fellow, researching and teaching Statistics (graduate level), Database Management/SQL (post graduate and graduate level) [2007 - 2011] and supervising bachelor exams [2010 - 2012], University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Research Director: “The Potsdam Project”, researching and developing a web-based archive and database solution for the “GDR prefab building Information Center”, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam [2010 - 2011]

Postdoc Research Fellow: “myID.privat” (Anonymity and pseudonymity in the process of online authentication with secure electronic identities/Technical University Berlin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Bundesdruckerei) [2009 - 2010]

Substitute for Professor Dr. Rainer Rumpel, teaching Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Berlin School of Economics and Law [2011]

Substitute for Professor Dr. Rolf Daessler, teaching MySQL, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam [2007 and 2010]

Substitute for Professor Dr. Guenther Neher, teaching Information research strategies, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam [2007]

Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, teaching Data Security and Privacy Theory [2006 - 2007]

Computing instructor, Free University of Berlin [2003 – 2005]

Tutor, Free University of Berlin [2003 – 2005]

Courses taught

Post graduate

- Database Management / MySQL

Graduate

- Statistics
- Networked Systems Theory
- Data Security and Privacy Theory
- Research program for empirical studies

Undergraduate

- XML and Scan-to-Web/Virtual Library
- Networked Systems Theory
- Database Management / MySQL
- Data Security and Privacy Theory
- Computing for social scientists (Beginners)
- Computing for social scientists (Advanced)
- Information research strategies

Courses developed

- Developed course titled “Statistics” for the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
- Developed course titled “Database Management” for the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
- Developed course titled “Networked System Theory” for the Berlin University of the Arts
- Developed course titled “Data Security and Privacy Theory” for the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
- Developed course titled „Computing for social scientists“ for the Free University of Berlin
- Developed course titled „Internet technologies and Webmastering“, a special course for Red Cross Webmasters in Germany
- Developed course titled „Research program for empirical studies“ in coordination with the German Red Cross in Berlin