Research Highlights

Grants and Honours
Mitglied der Leopoldina (2019, Christof Paar)
Program Co-Chair of the IEEE S&P (2021/22, Thorsten Holz)
ERC Advanced Grant (2015, Christof Paar)
ERC Starting Grant (2014,Thorsten Holz)
ERC Consolidator Grant (2013, Eike Kiltz)
DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2008, Holger Boche)
DFG Heisenberg Professorship (2015, Gregor Leander)
DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize (2011, Thorsten Holz)
DFG Emmy-Noether Program (2008, Aydin Sezgin)
NWO Vici Grant (The Netherlands) (2012, Dan Bernstein)
Alexander v. Humboldt-Foundation Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (2010, Eike Kiltz)
13 Best Paper Awards at leading cryptography & security conferences (Various)
ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016, Lucas Davi)
DHL Innovation Award (2013, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar)
IBM Faculty Award (2013, Angela Sasse)
NRW Innovationspreis (2012, Christof Paar)
Facebook Internet Defense Prize at USENIX Security (2014, Thorsten Holz)
German IT-Security Award (first place) (2010, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar)
German IT-Security Award (second place) (2012, Eike Kiltz)
VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize (2007, Holger Boche)
Member of the Leopoldina (2019, Christof Paar)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015, Angela Sasse)
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2013, Holger Dette)
IEEE Fellow (2010, Christof Paar)
IEEE Fellow (2011, Holger Boche)
IACR Fellow (2017, Christof Paar)
Young Fellow of NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities & Arts (2015, Tim Güneysu)
Highlight Publications
Third Party Funding
ERC Advanced Grant 2016 – 2021 Paar
ERC Consolidator Grant 2014 – 2019 Kiltz
ERC Starting Grant 2015 – 2020 Holz
NWO Vici Grant 2012 – 2017 Bernstein
AvH Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2010 – 2015 Kiltz
DFG Heisenberg Professorship 2015 – 2018 Leander
DFG Research Training Group “Cryptography for Ubiquitous Computing" 2012 – 2017 May (co-spokesperson), Paar (cospokesperson),Dürmuth, Güneysu, Holz, Kiltz, Kolossa, Leander, Schwenk
NRW Doctoral Training Group “Security for Humans in Cyberspace” 2016 – 2019 Paar (spokesperson), Dürmuth, Holz, Kiltz, Kolossa, May, Rummel
NRW Doctoral Training Group “Human-Centered Systems Security“ 2017 – 2020 Holz (co-spokesperson), Schwenk (cospokesperson), Dürmuth
Projects in DFG SFB “Statistical modeling of nonlinear dynamic processes” 2013 – 2021 Dette (deputy spokesperson)
GCHQ/EPSRC project “UK Research Institute in Science of Cyber Security (RISCS)” 2010 – 2021 Sasse (director)
EU project “Post-quantum cryptography for longterm security” 2015 – 2018 Bernstein (co-coordinator), Lange (co-coordinator), Güneysu, Paar
EU project “FutureTrust” 2016 – 2019 Schwenk (coordinator)
EU European Training Network “ECRYPT-NET” 2015 – 2018 Bernstein, Güneysu, Kiltz, Lange, May, Paar
BMWi project “Secure eMobility” 2012 – 2014 Güneysu, Holz, Paar, Schwenk