Angela Sasse Freng

Professor Sasse is the Head of Information Security Research at University College London (UCL), and currently also Director of the GCHQ/EPSRC-funded national Research Institute for the Science of Cyber Security. She started research in usable security in 1996, and has conducted dozens of lab and in-company studies on the cost and benefit of authentication mechanisms such as passwords and biometrics, and carried out two studies for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Professor Sasse’s team incorporates the Human-Centred Systems Group, an inter-disciplinary research unit she established at UCL to focus on HCI with special emphasis on security. She read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science (on Users’ Models) from the University of Birmingham. She worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990 and joined the Department of Computer Science at UCL as a Lecturer in November 1990.