Institutional Director: Research Support;
Extraordinary Professor: Computer Science and Information Systems, North-West University, Potchefstroom
South Africa

Lucas M. Venter is the Institutional Director of Research Support at the North-West University, South Africa, and also Professor Extraordinarius of Computer Science. He previously held positions in Computer Science at the University of South Africa (Director: School of Computing) and in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Potchefstroom University (PUCHE), South Africa. He also served one semester as visiting researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso.  His current research interests include the human aspects of information security, and the measurement of quality of research outputs.