Henning Horn, M.A.
Head of the Secure and Sovereign Connectivity research area.
Area of Interest:
- Intelligent connectivity and IT security
- Technology sovereignty
- Digital transformation
Biography
Henning Horn has been a research associate at the Institute for Technologies and Management of Digital Transformation (TMDT) at the University of Wuppertal (BUW) since February 2018. Since September 2023, he has headed the Secure and Sovereign Connectivity research area and is Co-Head of the joint project 'Competence Center 5G.NRW' (CC5G.NRW) funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy (MWIKE) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The research association under the consortium leadership of the University of Wuppertal comprises teams at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Technical University of Dortmund and FIR e.V., an affiliated institute of RWTH Aachen University.
At the TMDT, he conducts research on the topics of digital sovereignty, technology sovereignty and strategic autonomy with a particular focus on intelligent connectivity and its IT security as well as geopolitical issues in the context of digital transformation. Together with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), he has regularly hosted the 5G and IT security focus group since 2022.
Mr. Horn studied political science and law at the University of Trier. His areas of specialization were international relations, foreign, security and defence policy, cyber, information and communication security, hybrid and electronic forms of conflict as well as international law. In his master's thesis, published by LIT-Verlag, he examined diverging motives for the development of German arms export policy between 1998 and 2015.
