Christine Grosse

Research

Christine Grosse is associate professor in information systems and information security, with a particular interest in the organisational, societal and governance issues related to risk and security, such as policy and business questions, process/system modelling and development, decision-making and information/cyber security. She has also a strong interest in interactions between different stakeholders and other parts of complex systems from an information security perspective. Grosse is associated to the Centre for Critical Infrastructure and Societal Security (CISS) at LTU.

Central to her research is the question how critical infrastructure protection, societal security and crisis management can be understood from a systems perspective. For example, Grosse has investigated policy networks and decision-making processes that are concerned with vital societal functions (i.e. critical infrastructure), such as power supply, transportation, information and communication technology (ICT) and public risk communication. Such processes are regularly accompanied of comprehensive processing of sensitive or classified information, which necessitates certain levels of security to facilitate decision-making, particularly considering a diversified threat landscape including gray zone and hybrid threats.

Of certain interest are therefore data and information-related challenges in policy and decision processes on societal and cyber security, such as disinformation, information scarcity, uncertainty, conflicting stakeholder interests, awareness deficits, and the increasing interest for collective intelligence and multi-level governance.

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Research Projects (Selection)

• Communication technology for critical public services: the implementation of Rakel G2 /SWEN (MCF)
• Space systems as critical infrastructure: A systems perspective to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience in critical societal functions (MSB)
  
• System-based support for analysing accessibility changes at regional level (STA)
  
• Digital resilience: challenges and opportunities of AI technologies for civil preparedness (MSB)
• Predictive Movement: Transports in urban and rural areas (Vinnova)
• Total Defence: Inventory and activation of specific volunteer resources in the Region Jämtland Härjedalen (Municipality of Östersund/MIUN)
• Lessons and effects of the road speed revision (STA)
• People, metrics and resilience: New ways of studying risk communication, responsibility and preparedness (MSB)
• Perspectives on accessibility: The relationship between infrastructure and regional development (Sundsvall region/MIUN)

Education

• Faculty Programme Director for the international master’s programme in information security
• Course coordinator of and teacher in several courses of the international master’s programme in information security, for example
  • Risk management
  • Trends in information systems and security
• Supervision of second cycle and third cycle students in their thesis work

Administration

• Member of the recruitment board