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After completing his PhD in Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Christoph Sorge worked as a research scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe. He joined the University of Paderborn as a junior professor for network security in 2010. Christoph has been a professor of legal informatics at Saarland University since 2014. While his primary affiliation is with the Faculty of Law, Christoph is a co-opted professor of computer science and an associated member of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, a senior fellow of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, and a board member of the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary. Together with his interdisciplinary team, Christoph works at the intersection of law and computer science. The team's main focus is on applied technical and legal research in data protection, privacy, and security. Other research areas of the group include the ditigization of the justice system, NLP for legal applications, IT forensics, and European data law.