Andrea Nowak is elected as the new president of PSC Europe (PSCE), a European platform aimed at securing and protecting European citizens by improving public safety information and communication systems. Andrea Nowak studied Informatics and Mathematics and is Deputy Head of the Department Digital Safety & Security and Head of Business Unit Information Management of the Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH – AIT.

During her presidency, Andrea Nowak will be responsible for the research and development in the areas of Crisis and Disaster Management, ICT-Security and Data Science. Earlier today she gave a statement regarding her priorities during her presidency. “In order to protect the European citizens, a sustainable dialogue between all actors from the security sector is needed. PSCE is the European platform to synchronize requirements of end users, industry products and latest technology developments from research, to create future-oriented communication and information management systems. During my mandate, I will pursue these activities and provide the best conditions for these different communities to continue working together.”

With regard to the three research and development areas, Andrea Nowak outlined the major challenges in each area.  

Crisis and Disaster Management has two major challenges. Interoperability of first responder organizations, especially with respect to their information sharing requirements, needs to be improved. The other challenge is community and volunteer management with a focus on crowd tasking and management and social media data classification.

In the area of ICT Security, the focus lies on the development of methods and technologies for risk management in cyber physical systems, Privacy & Security by Design, Cyber Attack Information Systems and Cyber Incident Information Sharing.

In the research for Data Science one of the major challenges comes from large-scale Data Science applications. How should these rapidly produced, large amounts of heterogeneous data be processed and analyzed.

Andrea Nowak, who is also an active member of various networks, like EARTO-SRG and ENERO, will strive to overcome these challenges and thus improve the security and protection of European citizens during her four-year mandate.