Brief CV

• 2001: Diploma in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology
• 2003-2005: Research Assistant, Chair for Theoretical Computer Science and Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Technische Universität München
• 2004: PhD in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology
• 2006-2007: Senior Scientist, Philips Research Europe, Information and System Security Group
• 2008-2011: Assistant Professor, Techische Universität Darmstadt
• 2009: Habilitation in Computer Science, Technische Universität München
• 2012-2019: Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• since 2019: Professor, Universität Passau

Research Activities

• Cryptographic protocols (design, analysis)
• Cryptographic techniques for noisy and fuzzy data
• Secure Critical Infrastructures and Railway Security
• Physically Unclonable Functions
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Watermarking
• Steganography and Covert Channels
• …

Professional Activities

• Associate editor of IEEE TDSC (2008-2011), ACM TOPS (2014-2020) and IEEE TIFS (2015-2018)
• Editor in chief of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security (2013-2017).
• Program Chair of IH'05, CMS'05, IWDW'07, IWDW'08, ACM DRM 2011, MMSEC 2012, GI Sicherheit 2014, ACM IH&MMSEC 2014, ARES 2015, TrustED2015, IFIP SEC 2016, ASHES 2020, ASHES 2021; Track chair at SOFSEM 2012 and EUSIPCO 2015; Workshop Chair of CCS 2013.
• General Chair of Information Hiding 09, TRUST 2012, CCS 2016
• Member of the steering committee of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security
• Organizer Dagstuhl events: Privacy and Security in Smart Energy Grids (December 2011), Genomic Privacy (October 2015), Privacy and Security in Smart Energy Grids (January 2016), The Renaissance of Information Hiding (March 2020)
• Program Committee member of various security conferences in different years such as CCS, ESORICS, PETS, NDSS, WIFS, ARES, FC, …
• Current funded projects, and past projects

• For a list of publications, please go to Google Scholar.
• You can find the most important publications at DBLP.

We typically offer the following courses:

Summer semester

• Rechnerarchitektur (VO+UE, in German language only)
• Sicheres Rechnen/Secure Computation (VO+UE)
• Eisenbahnsicherungstechnik (VO, in German language only)
• Advanced Security Engineering Lab
• Seminars, varying topics

Winter semester

• Technische Informatik (VO+UE, in German language only)
• Hardware-basierte Sicherheit/Hardware-based security (VO+UE)
• Advanced Security Engineering Lab
• Seminars, varying topics

You really expect me to put private information on a public webpage? Well …

• My favourite comic: Dilbert.
• My favorite journal: Journal of Craptology.
• I am a member of bahnmedien.at, which publishes books on the history of the Austrian railway network.
• I enjoy riding my F800 GS and WR250R (mostly “onroad”, unfortunately).
• I collect manuals of German and Austrian train operators.