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Otto-Hahn-Straße 14
44227 Dortmund (Germany)

Awards (selection)

U.S. FBI Honorable Mention for Zeus P2P Botnet Takedown

2018: Capital - Young Elite - 40 below 40

Technology Review - Top Innovators Below 35 in Germany

2017: Busy Beaver Award for "Cybersecurity I" and "Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection"

Short Bio

Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow is tenured faculty at CISPA and full professor for Information Security at TU Dortmund. His research group on
System Security is located in Dortmund. Before, he was professor at Saarland University and a postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam (Herbert Bos) and the Ruhr University Bochum (Thorsten Holz). He obtained his PhD degree from the VU Amsterdam in 2013. His research group primarily centers on network and software security, including Denial-of-Service threats and program exploitation and defenses.

CV: Last stations

Since 2025
Faculty at CISPA and Professor at TU Dortmund
2016-2025
Professor at CS Department of Saarland University
Since 2016
Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
2014 - 2016
Research Group Leader at Cluster of Excellence MMCI, Saarbrücken

Publications by Christian Rossow

Year 2019

Year 2018

Conference / Medium

Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
teEther: Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts

Conference / Medium

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Ret2Spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers

Conference / Medium

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

Book section

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Conference / Medium

GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Evasive Malware via Identifier Implanting

Conference / Medium

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
The Rise of the Citizen Developer: Assessing the Security Impact of Online App Generators

Year 2016

Conference / Medium

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)
– vatiCAN – Vetted, Authenticated CAN Bus