Dr. Daniel Franzen is an affiliated researcher in Computer Science at the HCC.

His research focuses on the boundary between technology's expected functionality and privacy issues. He investigates which parameters contribute to perceiving a technology behavior as an intrusion or a valuable contribution.

In previous research, this boundary manifests in the privacy-preserving donation of mobility data. Here, Daniel is interested in the factors that differentiate between unwanted tracking of participants and the truly informed sharing decision to improve infrastructure and public interest.

In 2016, Daniel was awarded a PhD for his work on "Quantitative bounds on the security-critical resource consumption of JavaScript apps" by the University of Edinburgh. Before that, he graduated with a Master of Science with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh (2012) and a Master of Science in Media Informatics (2012), building upon a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (2010), both from the RWTH-Aachen. In addition, for his work on Regret Minimization in Game Theory, the RWTH Aachen also awarded him a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2011).