Since October 1, Prof. Dr. Franziska Boenisch has been directing the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC. At the same time, she was appointed to the Chair of Software and Systems Security at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prof. Dr. Georg Sigl is taking over as Managing Director of Fraunhofer AISEC. He has been the director of Fraunhofer AISEC since 2010 and is a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the Chair of Information Security.

Prof. Dr. Franziska Boenisch conducts research on data protection and security in the age of large AI models. She identifies vulnerabilities in these models and the systems in which they are embedded, quantifies risks through auditing and red teaming, and develops protective mechanisms with provable guarantees. Until the end of September, she was a senior researcher at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, where she worked at the intersection of AI, security and data protection. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vector Institute in Toronto. She completed her doctoral studies at Freie Universität Berlin and at Fraunhofer AISEC, where her dissertation received an award. Her work is regularly presented at leading international conferences, and for her research she has received, among other honors, an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council.