Melanie Volkamer is a full professor of Security Engineering at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB). She leads the research group on Security*Usability*Society (SECUSO) and is a PI of  the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (KASTEL). She has a background in computer science and in particular in information security. Melanie Volkamer is interested in usable security and privacy mechanisms and effective security and privacy awareness. The research approach taken is the so called human centered security by design approach which includes interviews in the requirements phase, focus groups in the design phase and various types of user studies in the validation phase.