Christoph Sorge, PhD
ReMeP Speaker Professor of Legal Informatics at the Faculty of Law at Saarland University
Photo: Oliver Dietze
Christoph Sorge has studied Information Engineering and Management and received a PhD in computer science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
He then joined NEC Laboratories Europe as a research scientist and the University of Paderborn as an assistant professor for network security. Since 2014, he has been Professor of Legal Informatics at the Faculty of Law at Saarland University, a co-opted professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and an associate member of the CISPA Helmholtz Centre for Information Security. With his interdisciplinary team, he conducts research on legal and technical issues of data protection and information security, data and AI law, and legal applications of AI. He is a co-founder of the journal ‘Künstliche Intelligenz und Recht’ (Artificial Intelligence and Law) published by Beck-Verlag, a member of the board of the EDV-Gerichtstag (German Association for Computing in the Judiciary) and a member of the research advisory board of the Institute for European Media Law.
