Lea is a PhD student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security working in the area of usable security and privacy. Her research focuses on making security and privacy critical technology and defensive mechanisms more accessible to users and developers. In particular she is interested in making self-hosting more accessible to different user populations. For this line of research she teamed up with Nextcloud to study motivations, roadblocks, infrastructure, and security strategies of the self-hosting community.