Henning Horn, M.A.
Scientific Researcher
Area of Interest:
- 5G and IT security
- Digital Transformation
- Digital Sovereignty
- 5G in Smart Cities
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. As part of his work within 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, Mr. Horn is responsible for operational and administrative project management as co-head together with Monika Gatzke. As consortium leader, he coordinates a research network consisting of the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Technical University of Dortmund and FIR e.V., an affiliated institute of RWTH Aachen University.
Since 2021, he and his team have been conducting accompanying scientific research for the state government's 5G.NRW funding competition with 35 application-oriented research projects on intelligent connectivity. The main focus of the research is the identification of synergy and cross-innovation potential of the various projects.
He also conducts research at the TMDT on the topics of 'digital sovereignty, technology sovereignty and strategic autonomy' with a particular focus on 5G applications and IT security as well as other general socio-political issues in the context of the 'digital transformation'. Together with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), it has regularly convened the 5G and IT security focus group since 2022. In addition, he organizes, coordinates and moderates a large number of other transfer formats as part of the CC5G.NRW offerings.
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 divergent motives for the development of German arms export policy between 1998 and 2015.
