Zinaida Benenson leads the Human Factors in Security and Privacy Group at the IT Security Infrastructures Lab of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Her research interests include usability of security- and privacy-enhancing technologies, decision making and risk perception in security and privacy, and also technical security issues in distributed systems, especially in wireless sensor networks and in pervasive computing. Zinaida received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany, on the topic of cryptographic access control protocols for wireless sensor networks.