Lund University

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe’s oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.

Lund University has nine faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 47,000 students in 241 different programmes and 1,450 freestanding courses. The university has 560 partner universities in approximately 70 countries. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network. Among those associated with the university are five Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medal winner, and prime ministers.

The security research group at the faculty of Engineering at Lund Unversity is working in ELASTIC with problems related to the secure deployment of workloads on edge resources and with problems related to anomaly detection and protected execution. The security group has long experience from cryptographic design as well as research in trusted computing and secure systems design. 

Role in the ELASTIC project:

In the ELASTIC project, Lund University contributes to creating interoperable and trustworthy platform solutions for on-demand workloads. Additionally, Lund focuses on anomaly detection and denial-of-service mitigation in mobile networks