Ulrik Franke

I am a senior lecturer at the Swedish Defence University and an associate professor (docent) in electrical engineering with a specialization in dependable information systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. From 2023 to 2025 I was also an adjunct professor at KTH. I hold a MSc in Engineering Physics from KTH, an MA in Practical Philosophy from Stockholm University, and a PhD in Industrial Information and Control Systems from KTH. I am also a major in the Swedish army reserve.

Before joining the Swedish Defence University I was a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and before that I was a senior scientist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. I have also been a guest researcher at insurer Länsförsäkringar, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), and Istituto per le Applicazioni del calcolo 'Mauro Picone' in Naples.

In my research, I am interested in the interplay between technology and society. A few particular interests are algorithmic transparency, cyber situational awareness, cybersecurity economics, and enterprise architecture. My research has been awarded with the NATO Science & Technology Organization Scientific Achievement Award and with the silver award medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.

I am an associate editor of the journals Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISAJ) and Philosophy & Technology.

PhD students:

• Nesibe Musti, Uppsala University (co-supervisor)
• Annika Andreasson, KTH (co-supervisor)
• Stefan Varga, KTH (co-supervisor)
• Fredrik Heiding, KTH (main supervisor, PhD 2024)
• Jacob Dexe, KTH (co-supervisor, PhD 2022)
• Margus Välja, KTH (co-supervisor, PhD 2018)

In my spare time, I am working on a new translation of Aleksandr Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin from Russian into Swedish. Please feel free to follow this ongoing effort on onegin.se.