Christof Tschohl is a communications engineer and lawyer specializing in human rights and information technology, data protection and privacy by design (human dignity by design, rule of law by design), IT security, cybercrime, e-government, and freedom of information and expression. In addition, he has been a fundamental rights trainer for trainee judges since 2008 and a lecturer at the University of Vienna, at the TÜV Austria Academy. Since 2012, he has been working independently and full-time as the scientific director of the Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center.