Summary
Zoltan Mann is a computer science professor and researcher with nine years of focused academic leadership in security, privacy, data protection, distributed and self-adaptive systems, and cloud/edge computing. He has blended deep theoretical training (PhD in CS, MSc in Mathematics and CS) with practical industry experience across consulting and automotive software, which informs his pragmatic approach to research and teaching. As head of a complex cyber infrastructure group and leader of BDVA’s data protection task force, he bridges academic research, standards, and real-world data governance. His work spans optimization algorithms to applied systems engineering, reflecting a rare cross-section of formal methods and operational deployment. Based in Essen, Germany, he often moves between roles shaping research agendas and steering applied projects, hinting at a talent for translating rigorous theory into scalable, privacy-aware systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Computer Science, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
MSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University
Fazekas Mihály Fővárosi Gyakorlógimnázium
Hungarian, English, German