Team CASA

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Principles of Security and Privacy Group

Founding Director of MPI-SP, PhD in Mathematics from the University of Manchester

E-Mail: Gilles.Barthe@mpi-sp.org

HUB A, HUB B

Research Interests: Programming Languages and Program Verification, Software and System Security, Cryptography, Formal Methods and Logic

Research Stops: Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Nice, France

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Responsible Computing Group

PhD in Computer Science at the MPI for Informatics and the MPI for Software Systems

E-Mail: Asia.Biega@mpi-sp.org

Hub D

Research Interests: Ethically, socially, and legally responsible information and social computing systems and studies how they interact with and influence their users

Highlight: DBIS Dissertation Award of the German Informatics Society

Research Stops: Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Montréal in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) Group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University

TU München - Chair of Theoretical Information Technology

PhD of Science from TU Berlin, PhD of Electrical Engineering from TU Dresden

E-Mail: Boche@tum.de

HUB A, Hub B

Research Interests: Physical layer security, Network Information Theory, Network Coding, Quantum Information Theory

Highlight: 2008 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Best Paper Award of the ITG 2015

Research Stops: Berlin, Dresden, München

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Software Security

PhD degree from National University of Singapore

E-Mail: Marcel.Boehme@mpi-sp.org

HUB C

Research Interests: Automatic discovery and remediation of software bugs, security vulnerabilities, security guarantees, assurances, and certification

Highlight: Technology Transfer Google and Mircosoft, 70 security advisories (CVEs), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (ICSE & ESEC/FSE), 2019 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), 2019 Google Faculty Research Award, 2018 Google Patch Rewards

Research Stops: Dresden, Singapur, Saarbrücken, Melbourne, Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Software Security Group

PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara

E-Mail: Kevin.Borgolte@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Network and Internet Security, especially security and privacy of networked systems; software security, particularly analysis and vulnerability discovery; and Internet measurements, focusing on IPv6 visibility and security adoption

Highlight: DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge 1st place academic + 1st place self-funded

Research Stops: TU Delft, Princeton University

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Data Science for Humanity Group

PhD degree in Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

E-Mail: Mia.Cha@mpi-sp.org

HUB D

Research Interests: Human-centred computing, information veracity, large language models, social computing

Highlight: ACM IMC Test-of-Time Award (2022), AAAI ICWSM Test-of-Time Award (2020), Young Information Scientist Award in South Korea (2019)

Research Stops: Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), CI Research Director at Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Visiting Professor at Meta/Facebook, Postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

University of Duisburg-Essen - System Security

PhD from TU Darmstadt

E-Mail: Lucas.Davi@uni-due.de

HUB A, HUB C

Research Interests: Software exploitation techniques and defences

Highlight: 2016 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016, 2015 Best Paper Award at DAC 2015

Research Stops: Darmstadt, Portland

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Stochastics

PhD from Universität Hannover

E-Mail: Holger.Dette@rub.de

HUB A, HUB B

Research Interests: Mathematical Statistics, Applied Statistics, Probability Theory

Highlight: 2012 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, H-index: 42

Research Stops: Hannover, Göttingen, Purdue/Indiana

Leibniz Universität Hannover - Usable Security and Privacy

PhD degree from Saarland University

E-Mail: Markus.Duermuth@itsec.uni-hannover.de

HUB A, HUB D

Research Interests: User authentication, Privacy aspects of biometric systems, Privacy aspects of ubiquitous computing

Highlight: 2016 Outstanding Paper Award at ACM CODASPY

Research Stops: Saarland, Karlsruhe, Stanford, Bochum

Leibniz University Hannover - Information Security Chair

PhD from Leibniz Universität Hannover

E-Mail: Fahl@sec.uni-hannover.de

Hub D

Research Interests: Intersection of computer security and privacy with human factors

Highlight: Google Faculty Research Award (2017), Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize (2018), "Curious Mind" Award (2018)

Research Stops: Bonn, Saarbrücken, Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Machine Learning Group

PhD from University of Copenhagen, DK

E-Mail: Asja.Fischer@rub.de

Hub C

Research Interests: Development, analysis, and application of deep learning models and methods

Highlight: 2017 NVIDIA Pioneering Research Award, ICML, 2016 Best Paper 2014 Award, Pattern Recognition

Research Stops: Lisbon, Osnabrück, Bonn, Montreal, Copenhagen

Ruhr University Bochum - Theoretical Cryptography

Junior Professor, PhD from Saarland University

E-Mail: Nils.Fleischhacker@rub.de

Hub A

Research Interests: Foundations of Cryptography, Black-Box Separations and Lower Bounds

Highlight: Program Committee of ISC 2018 and ASIACRYPT 2019, reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Security Engineering

PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Tim.Gueneysu@rub.de

HUB A, HUB B, HUB C

Research Interests: Security Engineering, Efficient Cryptographic Implementations, Physically Resilient Cryptographic Systems, Security on Hardware Level, Practical Cryptanalysis

Highlight: 2015 – 2018 Fellow of the “Junges Kolleg”, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

Research Stops: Mannheim, Bremen, Saint-Etienne, Massachusetts Amherst

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Formally Verified Security Group

PhD from Saarland University

E-Mail: Catalin.Hritcu@mpi-sp.org

HUB A, Hub B, Hub C

Research Interests: Formal methods for security, programming languages, design and verification of security-critical systems

Highlight: ERC Starting Grant on formally secure compilation

Research Stops: Saarland University, ENS Paris, Inria Paris, University of Pennsylvania, Microsoft Research Redmond

TU Braunschweig - Institute for Application Security

PhD from the University of Passau

E-Mail: M.Johns@tu-braunschweig.de

HUB B

Research Interests: Web application security, applied software security, static code checking

Highlight: 2009 and 2012 Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar on "Web Application Security" 2012 – Board of the OWASP Chapter Germany

Research Stops: Hamburg, Passau, Braunschweig

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Information Security

PhD from ETH Zurich

E-Mail: Ghassan.Karame@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Blockchain Security and Privacy, Machine Learning Security, Storage Security

Highlight: 2019 Best Paper Award at IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017, 2014 Excellent Innovation Award at NEC Corporation

Research Stops: Heidelberg, Zurich

Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Chair for Cryptography

PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Eike.Kiltz@rub.de

HUB A, HUB B, HUB C, HUB D

Research Interests: Foundations of privacy, Theoretical cryptography, Design and analysis of cryptographic protocols, Complexity Theory

Highlight: Three Best Paper awards at EUROCRYPT, 2014 ERC Consolidator Grant "Efficient Resource Constrained Cryptography", ERC Advanced Grant in 2022

Research Stops: Paris, Lausanne, Amsterdan, San Diego

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for System Security

PhD degree in IT Security from Ruhr University Bochum

E-Mail: Katharina.Kohls@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Mobile network security, anonymity and privacy

Highlight: Co-founder Radix Security, Runner-Up for Best Paper at WiSec 2023

Research Stops: Bochum, Nijmegen

Eindhoven University of Technology - Chair of Cryptology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

PhD from Universität Essen

E-Mail: T.Lange@tue.nl

HUB A

Research Interests: Mathematical foundations of cryptography and quantum-secure encryption

Highlight: Coordinator of various joint projects funded by the EU, H-index: 41

Research Stops: Braunschweig, Lyngby/Denmark, Essen, Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Symmetric Cryptography

PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Gregor.Leander@rub.de

HUB A, HUB B, HUB D

Research Interests: Symmetric Cryptography, Block Ciphers, Lightweight Cryptography, Boolean Functions

Highlight: 2014 Best Paper Award at FSE 2014, 2015 Heisenberg Professorship by DFG

Research Stops: Lyngby/Denmark, Toulon/France

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

PhD from Friedrich-Alexander University

E-Mail: Giulio.Malavolta@mpi-sp.org

HUB A

Research Interests: Theory of cryptography and its connections with quantum computation, concurrent systems, cryptocurrencies, and game theory

Research Stops: Erlangen, Nürnberg

Ruhr University Bochum - Digital Sovereignty Group

PhD degree from Technical University of Darmstadt

E-Mail: Karola.Marky@rub.de

HUB D

Research Interests: Human-Centred Security, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Sovereignty, Digital Privacy

Research Stops: TU Kaiserslautern, National Institute of Informatics Japan, JAXA, Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Glasgow, Gottlieb Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, Keio University

Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Chair for Cryptology and IT Security

PhD from Universität Paderborn

E-Mail: Alex.May@rub.de

HUB A, HUB B

Research Interests: Cryptography, Protocols, Algorithmic Number Theory, Lattices, Coding Theory, Complexity Theory, Quantum Algorithms

Highlight: 2006 Best Paper Award at PKC, 2009 Best Paper Award at PKC, 2009 General chair EUROCRYPT 2009

Research Stops: Zürich, Paderborn, Darmstadt

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for System Security

PhD from Deakin University

E-Mail: Veelasha.Moonsamy@rub.de

HUB B, HUB C, HUB D

Research Interests: Security and privacy of smart mobile devices, User data privacy, Security applications of machine learning

Highlight: 2019 Google Faculty Research Award

Research Stops: Melbourne, Nijmegen, Utrecht

TU Darmstadt - Implementation Security

PhD from Sharif University of Technology, IR Habilitation from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Amir.Moradi@rub.de

HUB B

Research Interests: Physical Security, Hardware Security, Side-Channel Analysis, Applied Cryptography

Highlight: Best paper award at USENIX 2020, CHES 2019, HOST 2016, COSADE 2015 & ACNS 2014, PC co-chair of CHES 2020, 2nd prolific author of CHES, 10 Papers at CHES 2021, 8 in CHES 2022, 1st place in 9th German IT Security Award (2022)

Research Stops: Tehr­an, Bochum, Co­lo­gne

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Developer-Centred Security

PhD from the University of Bonn

E-Mail: Alena.Naiakshina@rub.de

HUB D

Research Interests: Human factors in IT-security and privacy research, behavioral security, design of security developer studies

Highlight: 2021 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award

Research Stops: London, Bonn

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Chair for Embedded Security

PhD from Universität Essen

E-Mail: Christof.Paar@csp.mpg.de

HUB A, HUB B

Research Interests: Software algorithms for cryptographic implementations, Hardware architectures for cryptography, Physical attacks against realworld systems, Cryptanalytical hardware, Security in embedded applications, Security in mobile and ad-hoc networks

Highlight: 2012 Best Paper Award at IEEE Security & Privacy, 2016 ERC Advanced Grant “Exploring and Preventing Cryptographic Backdoors”, 2017 IACR Fellow

Research Stops: Essen, Massachusetts Amherst

Technische Universität Berlin & BIFOLD - Chair of Machine Learning and Security

PhD from TU Berlin

E-Mail: Rieck@tu-berlin.de

HUB A, HUB B, HUB C

Research Interests: Computer security and machine learning; methods for detecting computer attacks, analyzing malicious software and discovering vulnerabilities in software

Highlight: 2014 Google Faculty Research Award, 2015 Outstanding Reviewer Award at RAID 2015, 2016 German Prize for IT-Security 2016 (2nd Place), Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2022, ERC Consolidator Grant 2022

Research Stops: Berlin, Göttingen, Braunschweig

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Educational Psychology, Institute of Educational Research

PhD from Universität Freiburg

E-Mail: Nikol.Rummel@rub.de

HUB D

Research Interests: Cognitive, motivational and social aspects of learning

Highlight: 2016 – President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), 2017 – Chairwoman of the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus “Kognitive Schnittstellen”, Tübingen

Research Stops: Wisconsin-Madison, Pittsburg (Carnegie Mellon)

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Human-Centred Security

PhD from University of Birmingham

E-Mail: Martina.Sasse@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

HUB D

Research Interests: Usable security and privacy

Highlight: 2015 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts; Speaker of the BSI's Digital Consumer Protection Advisory Board (since 2021); H-index: 62

Research Stops: London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Eindhoven

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Heinz Nixdorf Research Group for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts

PhD from Technical University of Vienna

E-Mail: Clara.Schneidewind@mpi-sp.org

HUB A

Research Interests: Blockchain, Formal methods for security, Applied cryptography

Highlight: Best EAPLS paper award at ETAPS

Research Stops: Pennsylvania, Vienna

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Radboud Universität, Nijmegen

PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology

E-Mail: Peter.Schwabe@mpi-sp.org

HUB A, HUB B

Research Interests: Cryptography, specifically the design and secure implementation of cryptographic primitives

Highlight: ERC Starting Grant EPOQUE – Engineering post-quantum cryptography

Research Stops: Aachen, Eindhoven, Taipei, Nijmegen

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Network and Data Security

PhD from Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen

E-Mail: Joerg.Schwenk@rub.de

HUB A, HUB C

Research Interests: Cryptographic protocols (TLS, SSH, IPsec IKE, QUIC), Internet security (e.g. E-Mail, DNS) and PDF/Office security

Highlight: 2014 Best Student Paper Award at ACM CCS, 2016 IETF TRON Award for best contribution to TLS standardization, ACM CCS 2021 Best Paper Award

Research Stops: Giessen, Nürnberg

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Digital Communication Systems

PhD from TU Berlin

E-Mail: Aydin.Sezgin@rub.de

HUB B

Research Interests: Communication, Information Theory, Physical Layer Security, Big Data

Highlight: 2009 – 2011 Head of Emmy Noether-Research-Group for Wireless Networks, 2016 Best Paper Award at ICCSPA

Research Stops: Berlin, Ulm, Irvine, Stanford

Ruhr University Bochum - Automated Security Analysis

PhD from Singapore University of Technology and Design

E-Mail: flavio.toffalini@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: automatic testing, mitigation, system security

Highlight: President's Graduate Fellowship Award (Singapore), Research Fellowship from University of Padua

Research Stops: Verona, Biot, Padova, Singapore, London, Lausanne, Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Quantum Information

PhD from ETH Zürich

E-Mail: Michael.Walter@rub.de

HUB A

Research Interests: Quantum Information, Algorithms, Complexity, Software; Theoretical Computer Science, Optimization; Mathematics

Highlight: 2022 ERC Starting Grant, 2020 Early Career Award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Research Stops: Zurich, Stanford, Amsterdam

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Computer Security

PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide

E-Mail: Yuval.Yarom@rub.de

HUB B, HUB C

Research Interests: Microarchitectural attacks and defenses, Cryptographic engineering

Highlight: Pwnie Awards – Most Innovative Research and Best Privilege Escalation Bug (Black Hat 2018), Distinguished Paper Award (IEEE SP 2019), Best Paper Award (EuroSys 2019), Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2020)

Research Stops: Adelaide, Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Computing and Society; Research Center for Trustworthy Data Science and Security

PhD degree in Computer Science from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems & Saarland University

E-Mail: Bilal.Zafar@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Responsible AI/ML, Human-centric AI/ML, Fairness, explainability, transparency & robustness

Highlight: 2021 / Otto Hahn Medal from Max Planck Society for outstanding early career achievements; 2018 / Nomination for CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award co-organized by the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) and the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL); 2017 / Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the IC3W2 Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW); 2016 / Notable Paper Award at the NIPS Symposium on ML and the Law; 2015/ Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN).

Research Stops: Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy - Human-Centered Security and Privacy group

PhD in Information from the University of Michigan

E-Mail: Yixin.Zou@mpi-sp.org

HUB D

Research Interests: Human-centred security and privacy, human-computer interaction, social computing, digital inequality

Highlight: Meta Research Award (2022), John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award (2022), ACM CHI Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (2019, 2020), SOUPS Distinguished Paper Award (2018)

Research Stops: University of Michigan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, research intern at Meta, Mozilla, and NortonLifeLock

Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Chair for Network and Data Security

Associated PI, Dr.-Ing.

E-Mail: Christian.Mainka@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Web Security, Data Security

Highlight: Best Paper Award ACM CCS 2021, Best Paper Award CSAW 2019, e-Hacking Platform: Winner of the 29th Round of the 5x5000 Contest/Centre for Teaching and Learning

Research Stops: Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum - Chair for Network and Data Security

Associated PI, PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Vladislav.Mladenov@rub.de

HUB C

Research Interests: Single Sign-On, Document Security, Data Format Security

Highlight: CSAW Best Paper Award 2019: 1st Place, CSAW Best Paper Award 2022: 2nd Place, e-Hacking Platform: Winner of the 29th Round of the 5x5000 Contest/Centre for Teaching and Learning

Research Stops: Bochum, Konstanz

Ruhr University Bochum - Security Engineering

Associated PI, Ph.D. degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

E-Mail: Pascal.Sasdrich@rub.de

HUB B

Research Interests: Hardware Security, Secure Processor Design, Computer-Aided Security, Security-by-Design

Highlight: 1st place in 9th German IT Security Award (2022), Head of Emmy Noether-Research-Group for Computer-Aided Verification (CAVE)

Research Stops: Rambus Cryptography Research (San Francisco, Rotterdam)