Bernhard Jäger

Bernhard Jäger is Research Manager and Department Lead at SYNYO with a focus on security research. He holds a master degree in sociology and a bachelor of arts in communication studies. As project researcher and coordinator, he has approved long term experience in successfully concepting and managing social and ICT based research projects. Before he started to work for SYNYO he was a project researcher at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna where he gathered extensive knowledge on deviant and criminal behaviour of individuals and masses, policing, crowd control, criminal justice and crime prevention. Besides his expertise on qualitative and quantitative research methods he also gained experience in usability, accessibility, user experience methods, user interface prototyping and design. At SYNYO Bernhard was concepting and managing a multitude of projects in different funding programmes in the security domain such as KIRAS (Social Media Crime, IMOPOL, IoThreats), FP7 (Graffolution) and Horizon 2020 (PeaceTraining.eu, TAKEDOWN) in which he extended his knowledge on Cyber Security, Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks as well as on Radicalization and Prevention. Based on his experience in setting up and coordinating projects Bernhard also has developed comprehensive project management skills. Since 2017 Bernhard is in his role as Department Lead responsible for the overall coordination of running security research projects at SYNYO.

Bernhard Jäger is Research Manager and Department Lead at SYNYO. He holds a master degree in sociology and a bachelor of arts in communication studies. As project researcher and coordinator, he has approved long term experience in successfully concepting and managing social and ICT based research projects. Before he started to work for SYNYO he was working at the Paul Lazarsfeld Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung (PLG) and the Austrian Institute of Youth Research (ÖIJ) where he was involved in research projects on Labour Market, Health Care, ICT Usage and Youth Delinquency. As project researcher at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna he gathered extensive knowledge on deviant and criminal behaviour of individuals and masses, policing, crowd control, criminal justice and crime prevention. Besides his expertise on qualitative and quantitative research methods he also gained experience in usability, accessibility, user experience methods, user interface prototyping and design. At SYNYO Bernhard was concepting and managing a multitude of projects in different funding programmes (including KIRAS, benefit, FP7, Horizon 2020) during the last years in which he also extended his knowledge on Open and Big Data, Social Media Analytics, Cyber Security, Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks as well as on Radicalization and Prevention. Based on his experience in setting up and coordinating projects Bernhard also has developed comprehensive project management skills. Since 2017 Bernhard is in his role as Department Lead responsible for the overall coordination of running research projects at SYNYO.

2003 - 2008 Master studies in Sociology
University of Vienna, Austria

2003 - 2008 Bachelor studies in Media Communication
University of Vienna, Austria

Huber, Florian / Jäger, Bernhard / Erev, Ido / Cohen, Doron / Bianchi, Sergio / Bonfanti Matteo (2019). Understanding the Organized Crime and Terrorism Nexus through a dynamic Modeling Approach. In: Ruggiero, Vincenzo (Eds.), Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks. London.

Achilleos, Achilleas / Jäger, Bernhard / Mettouris, Christos / Yeratziotis, Alexandros / Papadopoulos, George Angelos / Pllana, Sabri / Huber, Florian / Leitner, Peter Ocsovszky, Zsofia / Dinnyes, Andras (2018). SciChallenge: A Social Media Aware Platform for Contest-Based STEM Education and Motivation of Young Students. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2018.2810879

Huber, Florian / Jäger, Bernhard / Pllana, Sabri / Hrdlicka, Zdenek / Mettouris, Christos / A. Papadopoulos, George / Matevc, Tamara / Ocsovszky, Zsófia / Hajdu, Edina / Gary, Chris / Smith, Phil (2017): Pushing STEM-Education through a social-media-based contest format. Experiences and lessons-learned from the H2020 project SciChallenge. In: Conference Proceedings: INTED2017 Proceedings. Valencia: IATED

Ruscher, Stefan / Jäger, Bernhard / Huber, Florian / Bertel, Diotima (2017). Age-related Safety and Security – Developing a Novel Threat and Risk Model for Older Adults. Smarter Lives. Ambient Environments for an ageing society. In: Felix Piazolo, Stephan Schlögl (Hrsg.), Innovative Lösungen für eine alternde Gesellschaft Konferenzbeiträge der SMARTER LIVES 16 29.11.2016, Innsbruck. Lengerich.

Jäger, Bernhard / Leitner, Peter (2015): Innovative Approaches and Solutions to Understand, Identify and Tackle Social Media Crime. In: Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 7, Nr. 3, 1-10.

Jäger, Bernhard / Bartenberger, Martin / Leitner, Peter (2013): Open Data: Challenges and Future Directions, in: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2013, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 22.-25.10.2013, IADIS Press, pp. 363-367.

Cyber Crime / Cyber Security, Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks, Radicalization and Prevention, Open and Big Data, Social Media Analytics

FP7 Projects:
GRAFFOLUTION
OpenDataMonitor

EU-H2020-Projects:
TAKEDOWN
MINDb4ACT
MIICT

ISFP-projects:
CHAMPIONs
ARMOuR

KIRAS-projects:
Social Media Crime
IMOPOL
IoThreats
Counter Stories

Outcomes from the work that is conducted in current EU projects and national projects.

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