Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Sorge

Professor for Legal Informatics

Saarland University

Campus A5.4

Phone: 0681 302 5120 (Assistant)

Email: christoph.sorge(at)uni-saarland.de

In case of pure organisational matters please contact lehrstuhl.sorge(at)uni-saarland.de first. This ensures a fast processing of your request.

Office Hours: By appointment

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Research Interests

  • Data protection through technology (Privacy by Design) and law
  • LegalTech
  • Questions of Information law connected to security and privacy
  • AI and law
  • Machine Learning on law documents
  • Privacy by Design and law in AI

Short CV

since 2014

Professor of Legal Informatics, former juris Endowed Professorship of Legal Informatics, at Saarland University

2010-2014

Juniorprofessor (assistant professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn. Among other activities:

  • IT Security Officer of the University of Paderborn
  • Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics
  • Subproject Manager SFB 901 On the fly Computing
2008-2010Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg
Research on IT security and privacy in EU funded and in-house projects.
2004-2007Ph.D. in Computer Science at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Scholarship holder in the Research Training Group on Information Management and Market Engineering. Research assistant at Institute of Telematics at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Interdisciplinary doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. rer.nat Martina Zitterbart and Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Dreier, M.C.J.
1999-2004Student of Information Engineering and Management at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Awards: Faculty Award of the Department of Economics and Management at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Graduate Award of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science

Expert opinion and expert services

among others for:

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society)
  • European Research Council
  • Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung (Baden-Württemberg Foundation)
  • DAAD
  • various Federal Ministries (BMBF, BMJ,...)

Expert witness for the German federal parliament und the state parliaments of Saarland and Thuringia.

Teaching awards

  • CS Student council's "busy beaver award" for best teaching, Saarland University, summer 2024, for the lecture “Law of Cyber Security - Privacy Aspects”
  • State University Teaching Award of the Saarland 2014, awarded in March 2015, for the undergraduate seminar "hacking" (jointly with Prof. Dr. Michael Backes and staff of both research groups)
  • CS Student council's "busy beaver award" for best teaching, Saarland University, summer 2014, also for the undergraduate seminar "hacking" (jointly with Prof. Dr. Michael Backes and staff of both research groups)
  • Advancement Award for Innovation and Quality in Teaching, University of Paderborn, 2011

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