Philip was born in Berlin, Germany. He studied political science, English literature and law at the University of Heidelberg and at the Institut d`Etudes Politiques Lille in France. After being a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge he graduated with an M.A. in political science in 2009. Since March 2010 he is a junior researcher in the Competence Center “Emerging Technologies” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe.

 

Engaged in the EU-funded projects PRESCIENT and SAPIENT, his research focuses on privacy and data protection in the context of emerging technologies. Philip’s PhD thesis, which is supervised by Professor Andreas Busch from the Political Science Department of the University of Göttingen, deals with a comparative analysis of data protection authorities (DPAs).

Publication include:

• Philip Schütz and Michael Friedewald, “Privacy: What are we actually talking about? A multidisciplinary approach”, Proceedings of the Sixth PrimeLife/IFIP International Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Springer, 2011 (forthcoming).
• Philip Schütz and Michael Friedewald, „Cui bono from giving up or protecting privacy? – A basic decision theoretic model“, Journal of Information Assurance and Security, Vol.4, 2011 (forthcoming).