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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 2016

Conference / Medium

Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification.

Conference / Medium

International Symposium on Research in Attacks Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)
On the Feasibility of TTL-Based Filtering for DRDoS Mitigation

Year 2015

Conference / Medium

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
Cross-Architecture Bug Search in Binary Executables

Year 2014

Conference / Medium

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
On advanced monitoring in resilient and unstructured P2P botnets

Year 2012

Conference / Medium

EC2ND
On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control