MANAGEMENT
©Tobias Ebelshäuser
Dr. Kevin Streit has been the chief operating officer of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security since November 1, 2021. The computer scientist has witnessed and also helped shape the development of the center from the very beginning.
Kevin was born in Hermeskeil in 1984. He grew up in a four-generation household and is the first academic in his family. After graduating from high school, he initially trained as an IT specialist. He completed his apprenticeship as the best in the state, which motivated him to study computer science at Saarland University. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree, he attended the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. He earned his doctorate under CISPA Faculty Andreas Zeller and Sebastian Hack, a professor at Saarland University.
After a short foray into the start-up world, Kevin moved into science management and became the administrative coordinator for the Collaborative Research Center, which was acquired in 2015 and coordinated by CISPA. The following year, Kevin Streit became CISPA's administrative manager and was, therefore, in a position to help shape the Helmholtz Center for Information Security's founding process, which lasted from 2017 to 2019.
In doing so, Kevin Streit got just as involved in administration as he had previously been in computer science.
It was and still is his ambition to penetrate both worlds in equal measure. For Kevin, his knowledge of both areas represents a great opportunity. After all, it means that he understands both the business contexts as well as the researchers' needs and that he also possesses an understanding of digital implementation possibilities.
The period in which Dr. Kevin Streit takes up his new position is marked by the ongoing development and growth of the center. When asked what will change with him as administrative director, Streit responds that, of course, everything will change. However, not because he was appointed chief operating officer, but because of the growth plan, which was mapped out over eight years in 2019 and is just in year 2 of implementation when he takes office. Thus, in the following years, steady development and constant changes will be on the agenda. There are also always new people joining the Center. In order to provide them with an excellent scientific environment, a new campus is being built, among other things. An essential goal of the management is to unite all CISPA employees at one location. Kevin has also made it his mission to drive the administration's digitalization and make work processes as good as possible.
