His academic contributions include authoring and co-authoring over scientific publications and books, and he holds two patents. His involvement in the academic community extends to serving on several program committees for international conferences and organizing numerous workshops and conferences. From 2014 to 2020, he was a Associate Researcher of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). Since 2024, he is member of the review board “4.42-04 Hardware Systems and Architectures for Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence” of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Frank’s current research are centered around Resilience Engineering, Maritime Security, Dependable Computing and Emerging Technologies.