Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Women in IT Security

Whether in communication, health, or mobility: cyber security plays an important role in all socially relevant areas. The continuous linking of the digital and physical worlds is constantly presenting new challenges and questions. Innovative solutions and ideas are needed! Curiosity, openness, creativity, and the ability to shift perspectives are therefore essential skills for a career in cyber security.

The career opportunities are as diverse as the challenges. With our series Women in IT Security, we aim to highlight the variety of paths and opportunities in cyber security – especially for women – and introduce exciting women with different research focuses who work here at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and our partner institutes.

Each is following her own unique career path and is working on one of countless fascinating aspects of cyber security. The range of topics is wide and each angle shows a different facet: sometimes a technical question is the focus of research, sometimes human behavior in the context of cyber security is illuminated.

Get to know our Role Models and be inspired!

Our Role Models

Anna is a PhD student at the Chair for Information Security at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Smart Contracts, Vulnerabilities Detection, Reentrancy Attack, Blockchain, Security

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Carina is a PhD student at the Chair for Stochastics at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Statistic, Differential Privacy, Bootstrap, Confidence Interval, Stochastic Gradient Descent

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Leona was a PhD student within the former Mobile Security Group and part of the interdisciplinary research program SecHuman – Security for Humans in Cyberspace at RUB.

Research Focus: Usable Security, Biometrics, Law, User Experience

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Annika was a PhD student at the Chair for Information Security at RUB.

Research Focus: Trusted Execution Environments, Side-Channel Resistance, Hardware Isolation, Platform Security

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Sina was a PhD student at the Chair for Machine Learning at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Foucs: Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Neural Networks, Stochastic Models, Adversarial Robustness

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Maya was a PhD student at the Chair for Cryptology and IT Security at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Quantum Computing, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Lattices, Algorithms

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M. Angela is a Professor for Human-Centered Security at RUB, and Principal Investigator within the Cluster of Excellence CASA. She is a Speaker of CASA, and Leader of Research Hub D "Usability".

Research Focus: Human-Centered Security, Privacy Mechanisms, Security, Usability

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Carina was a postdoctoral researcher at the Educational Psychology and Technology Research Group at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA, as well as an associated guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.

Research Focus: Human Factors in Hardware Reverse Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychological Studies, Problem Solving, Development of Methodological Approaches

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Clara is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and a Principal Investigator within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, Scalability, Smart Contracts, Formal Verification, Provable Security and Privacy

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Franziska is a PhD student in the Mobile Security Group at RUB within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Questionnaire Development, Psychology, User Perception of Security and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Security, Trust

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Alena was an Associate Professor for Developer-Centered Security at RUB and Principal Investigator within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Developer-Centred Security, Design of Security Studies, Behavioral Security, Developer Studies, Usable Security and Privacy

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Veelasha is an Associate Professor for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems at RUB, and a Principal Investigator within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Smart Mobile Device Security, Malware Detection, Security and Privacy in IOT, Privacy of User Data

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Doreen was a PhD student at the Chair for Cryptography at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Cryptography, Provable Security, Security Games, Public-Key Encryption, Authenticated Key-Exchange

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Asia is a tenure-track faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy leading the Responsible Computing group, and Principal Investigator within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Responsible Computing, Digital Well-Being, Data Governance and Ethics, Search and Recommender Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Fairness and Societal Impacts

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Sabrina was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Cryptography at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Elliptic Curves, Arithmetic Geometry

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Jennifer was a PhD student at the Chair for Human-Centred Security at RUB.

Research Focus: Self-Efficacy, Security Awareness and Trainings, Phishing, Eye Tracking, Experience, Knowledge and Trust

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Lea was a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Signal Processing Group at RUB, within the Cluster of Excellence CASA.

Research Focus: Cognitive Signal Processing, Voice Recognition, Security, Neural Networks

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CASA For Women

We offer exciting career opportunities to talented young female* scientists:

Support from CASA

CASA encourages talented female scientists* to pursue careers in academia and industry and supports them in balancing work and personal life. Specific measures include, among others:

Our Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop,
Networking Activities,
Workshops & Further Training,
Diversity Mentoring,
Childcare Support,
and the Dual Career Program at Ruhr University Bochum.

Information about the general offers for equal opportunities at the Ruhr University Bochum: https://www.chancengleich.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

► If you have any questions about support from CASA, please contact Kirsten Jäger.

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