Prof. Dr. rer. nat Ulrich Meissen

Head of the ESPRI division

Focus areas

  • Public safety and early warning systems
  • Location-based services
  • Information logistics

Profile

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Meissen heads the Electronic Safety and Security Systems for the Public and Industries (ESPRI) business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS. He studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and Trinity College Dublin.
His studies focused on operations research, artificial intelligence and environmental engineering.
After graduating as an industrial engineer, Prof. Dr. Meissen worked as an IT manager for Versicherungskammer Bayern, where he managed development projects in the field of damage assessment.

He has been a scientist at Fraunhofer since 2000, specializing in information logistics, event-based architectures and early warning systems. His dissertation deals with effective alerting technologies in early warning systems. During his research activities, he was significantly involved in numerous national and international projects in the field of early warning systems and hazard prevention. Among other things, he led the WIND project, a severe weather warning system that has become the most successful commercial severe weather warning system in Europe with around 2.5 million registered users. He also worked as a consultant for central systems engineering in the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS).

He is currently responsible for the further development of the KATWARN population warning system, which has been introduced in numerous cities and districts in Germany (including Nuremberg, Berlin and Hamburg). Due to his research activities and many years of practical experience, he is a key expert in public warning systems and networked security within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

Publikationen

Jahr
Year
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Title/Author
Publikationstyp
Publication Type
2024 Tuning Pseudonymization Parameters in a Privacy by Design Approach for Secure Information Discovery Between Federated Organizations
Kriegel, Ulrich; Peitzsch, Sascha; Restel, Hannes; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2024 Public Safety Campus Networks: Towards a Reference Architecture for Post-Disaster Edge-Computing and Crisis-Communication
Lukau, Eridy; Schiller, Jochen; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2024 ROBUST-Kommunikationsplattform
Jendreck, Michael; Hellriegel, Janine; Allmann, Jonas; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2024 Secure Information Discovery between Public Security Authorities Using a New Pseudonymization Approach
Kriegel, Ulrich; Restel, Hannes; Meissen, Ulrich; Lukau, Eridy
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2023 ROBUST communication platform - A decentralized, distributed communication platform for the earthquake early warning system ROBUST
Jendreck, Michael; Hellriegel, Janine; Allmann, Jonas; Restel, Hannes; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2023 Towards efficient post-blackout emergency communication based on citizens’ smartphone state of charge
Lukau, Eridy; Schiller, Jochen; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2021 5G basierte Anforderungsanalyse und Referenzarchitektur für zukunftsfähige und massentaugliche Microservice-basierte Warnsysteme im Katastrophenschutz
Lukau, Eridy; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2021 Eine Microservice-basierte Referenzarchitektur für eine eventbasierte dezentrale Ad-hoc-Vernetzung in Notfall- und Krisenlagen am Beispiel eines Brandes in einer Recyclinganlage
Holzhüter, Michael; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2019 Toward privacy by design in spatial crowdsourcing in emergency and disaster response
Fotouhi Tehrani, Pouyan; Restel, Hannes; Jendreck, Michael; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Hardt, Markus; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2018 Eine Mikroservice-basierte Referenzarchitektur für interoperable, flexible und robuste Warnsysteme
Meissen, Ulrich; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Hardt, Markus; Faust, Daniel; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2018 KATWARN - A microservice-based architecture for distributed, flexible and robust warning systems
Meissen, Ulrich; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Hardt, Markus; Faust, Daniel
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 A general system architecture and design for the coordination of volunteers for agile disaster response
Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Jendreck, Michael; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Hardt, Markus; Voisard, Agnes
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 Mobiles Crowdsourcing/sensing für die verbesserte Messung von subjektivem Sicherheitsempfinden im ÖP(N)V
Restel, Hannes; Jendreck, Michael; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Meissen, Ulrich; Klafft, Michael
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 ENSURE - integration of volunteers in disaster management
Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Jendreck, Michael; Meissen, Ulrich; Rösler, Michel; Lukau, Eridy; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Hardt, Markus
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 Motivation, Ziele und Vorstellung des Projekts
Peperhove, Roman; Meissen, Ulrich
Aufsatz in Buch
Book Article
2017 Taming the flood
Fotouhi Tehrani, Pouyan; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Kriegel, Ulrich; Billig, Andreas; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 Multidimensional report analysis in urban incident management
Fotouhi Tehrani, Pouyan; Pfennigschmidt, Stefan; Kriegel, Ulrich; Billig, Andreas; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2017 The potential impact of upcoming severe weather on traffic and its communication through navigation systems
Klafft, Michael; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2016 Mobile Anwendungen für Bürger im Katastrophenschutz
Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Meissen, Ulrich
Aufsatz in Buch
Book Article
2016 ENSURE - increasing resilience through the involvement of voluntary helpers
Jendreck, Michael; Meissen, Ulrich; Rösler, Michel; Lukau, Eridy; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2016 ENSURE - Erhöhung der Resilienz durch die Einbindung freiwilliger Helfer in Krisensituationen
Jendreck, Michael; Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank; Rösler, Michel; Lukau, Eridy
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2015 Privacy by Design: Daten- und geheimschutzfreundliche Speicherung sensibler Daten in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung von Bund und Ländern
Gottschick, Jan; Kriegel, Ulrich; Meissen, Ulrich
Bericht
Report
2014 Crowdsourcing in early warning systems
Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2014 Towards a general system design for community-centered crisis and emergency warning systems
Meissen, Ulrich; Hardt, Markus; Voisard, Agnès
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2014 Towards a reference architecture of crowdsourcing integration in early warning systems
Meissen, Ulrich; Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2014 IT und Internet als kritische Infrastruktur
Beck, Roman; Caumanns, Jörg; Großmann, Jürgen; Meissen, Ulrich; Schiller, Jochen; Schulz, Sönke E.; Tiemann, Jens; Tischer, Jakob; Wolf, Armin; Wollina, Markus
Buch
Book
2014 Towards an economic assessment approach for early warning systems: Improving cost-avoidance calculations with regard to private households
Wurster, Simone; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2014 Document relation system based on ontologies for the security domain
Hellriegel, Janine; Ziegler, Hans Georg; Meissen, Ulrich
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2012 A knowledge fusion toolkit for decision making
Kriegel, E.U.; Meissen, U.; Pfennigschmidt, S.; Voisard, A.
Konferenzbeitrag
Conference Paper
2012 Targeted alerting in early warning systems
Meissen, Ulrich
Dissertation
Doctoral Thesis
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