Faculty
U.S. FBI Honorable Mention for Zeus P2P Botnet Takedown
Capitol - Young Elite - 40 below 40
Technology Review - Top Innovators Below 35 in Germany
I am Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany, and lead the System Security research group. I also hold a professorship from the CS department of Saarland University. From 2014 until 2016, I was an Independent Research Group leader at the Cluster of Excellence MMCI at Saarland University. Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam (Herbert Bos) and the Ruhr University Bochum (Thorsten Holz). Before my postdoctoral stays, I worked at the Institute for Internet Security if(is) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and obtained my PhD degree from the VU Amsterdam in April 2013. My primary research centers on in these areas: Cyber Threats (e.g., malware), Network Security and Privacy, Program Analysis and Attack Traceback.
ACSAC
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Computer Security Applications ConferenceAnnual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022)
CCS
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
ESORICS
Proceedings, Part I-II27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022
USENIX-Security
USENIX Security '22USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022.
CCS
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22)CCS 2022
CNSM
2021 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)17th International Conference on Network and Service Management
EuroS&P
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
USENIX-Security
USENIX Security SymposiumUSENIX Security Symposium
USENIX-Security
30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '21)30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '21)
Basis Lecture: Foundations of Cyber Security II
Proseminar: Malware