Christine Große holds a PhD from the Mid Sweden University and works within the Department of Information Systems and Technology. Her research interests concern critical infrastructure and its protection, especially in the contexts of national energy supply, transportation and communication. Special interest is on complex systems-of-systems and related implications for risk analysis, emergency preparedness planning and information security in such environments. She also has a MSc in information security from the Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and a BSc in business informatics from the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.