Isabel Wagner is Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She studied computer science at the University of Erlangen, Germany, and received her PhD from the same university in 2010. After a postdoc at the University of Osaka, Japan, she worked at the University of Hull, UK (2013-2015), and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2015-2022).

Her research interests are privacy and privacy-enhancing technologies, particularly metrics to quantify the effectiveness of privacy protection mechanisms, privacy protections for smart technologies, and measurement studies to create transparency for web and IoT systems. Her 2022 book, Auditing Corporate Surveillance Systems: Research Methods for Greater Transparency, is available from Cambridge University Press.