Professor Christoph Busch is member of the department computer science and media technology at the Gjøvik University College (GUC), Norway. He holds a joint appointment with the Media Faculty at the Hochschule Darmstadt (University of Applied Sciences – Darmstadt, Germany).
On behalf of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) he has been the responsible project coordinator for the project series BioIS, BioFace and BioFinger – all projects dealing with biometric applications in general and performance and security testing in detail. In the current EU research program he was initiator of the Integrated Project 3D-Face. Furthermore he is partner in the Integrated Project TURBINE.
Moreover Christoph Busch is co-founder and chair of the CAST-Forum that was established in 1999 and assembles in the meantime more than 180 institutional members.
Christoph Busch published numerous technical papers and has been a speaker at international conferences. He served for various program committees (BSI-Congress, GI-Congress, DACH, WEDELMUSIC, EUROGRAPHICS) and served for several conferences, journals and magazines as reviewer (ACM-SIGGRAPH, IEEE CG&A, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, etc.).
