On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will be presented at the event. Submissions will be selected by a committee of her students and colleagues, with accepted papers being made available online following the event.
M. Angela Sasse is the professor of human-centred technology at UCL, and of human-centred security at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. She is a pioneer of usable security research and interdisciplinary security research. In recent years, her focus has been empirical research on how large organisations manage cybersecurity risks, in particular in relation to human capital. In 2018 she moved to Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where she is a speaker of the Exzellenzclusterproject CASA, the interdisciplinary graduate school SecHuman, and the BMBF-funded DigiFit project. She was elected Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2015) and the German National Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina" (2023).
Submissions are limited to eight pages in LNCS format excluding bibliography and any appendices, and maximum ten pages total (shorter submissions are encouraged). Authors will retain copyright to their submission, and grant permission for the work to be published under a Creative Commons license. Submissions should be on a topic inspired by, relating to, or commenting on the broad area of Professor Sasse's research. The theme of the event will be "Users Are Not The Enemy" but this should be interpreted as a springboard for ideas rather than as a constraint.
Submissions should be made in PDF format by 31 December 2025. Instructions will be provided closer to the time. Sign up for updates below to be notified when these are available.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
The event will be held in University College London on 31 March 2026. Further details and registration link will be announced in due course. Sign up for updates below to be notified when these are available.
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You can contact us at: sassefest@cs.ucl.ac.uk.