Biography

I am a professor of computer science with a special interest in computer security. My research interests include system security and applied cryptography and I received my PhD from FAU Erlangen. Currently, I lead the ITS group at Münster University of Applied Sciences and the department Applied Cryptography and Medical IT Security (ACM) at Fraunhofer SIT. As a member of Fraunhofer SIT, I am also part of the Athene National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity.

I live with my family in the beautiful city of Münster in the north-west of Germany. In my free time, I enjoy various disciplines of Mountainbiking.

Academic publications

Find the list of my publications at my University’s page, at Google Scholar, or at DBLP.

Press coverage

My group’s University page lists some appearances in TV and print media .

Two prominent publications I co-authored are the DROWN attack against TLS (2016 Pwnie Award For Best Cryptographic Attack) and the EFAIL vulnerabilities against OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption.

Talks

I regularly speak at academic and industry conferences about computer security-related topics. Some conferences record presentations and make them public after the conferences. Below is a selection of those talks, but Google lists more.

37rd Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), 2023

35rd Chaos Communication Congress (35C3), 2018

33rd Chaos Communication Congress (33C3), 2016

RuhrSec, 2016

31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3), 2014

28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3), 2011

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