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Martin Steinebach is head of the Media Security and IT Forensics department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT.
He studied computer science at TU Darmstadt from 1992 to 1999. In 2003, he received his doctorate in computer science from the TU Darmstadt with a thesis on digital audio watermarks. In March 2002, he became head of the MERIT department at Fraunhofer IPSI, which dealt with media data security, and the C4M competence centre for media security.
After the closure of Fraunhofer IPSI in 2007, he moved to Fraunhofer SIT, where he first headed a group on media security and then took over as head of the Media Security and Forensics department in January 2010. He has been an honorary professor at TU Darmstadt since November 2016.
Since 2019, Martin Steinebach is Principal Investigator at the National Research Centre for Applied Cyber Security ATHENE, where he heads the research areas "Reliable and Verifiable Information through Secure Media (REVISE)" and "Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence (SenPAI)".