Cybersecurity is a young and rapidly evolving field. As a Helmholtz Center dedicated to information security, we combine cutting-edge foundational research with innovative application-oriented research in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, and trustworthy artificial intelligence.
CISPA offers an open, inclusive, and international research environment. Our working language is English and we provide hands-on support with relocation and integration for our international colleagues. Researchers benefit from our excellent infrastructure and services relating to third-party funding, data management and publications. We support the families of our researchers offering, for example, local childcare guidance as well as a dual career service. At CISPA, a vibrant community and six closely connected research areas foster collaboration and networking across disciplines.
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Conference papers in total
Of which A*
Papers at the top 6 venues of security, privacy & cryptography alone
12018–2024
Security research in today’s interconnected world has so many different challenges. I am particularly excited about making complex security and privacy mechanisms more human-friendly.
We are trying to determine ways to ascertain that current and future systems are secure. To achieve this, we develop analysis frameworks, methodologies, and tools. These enable us to identify attacks and propose more secure solutions.
My group researches novel classes of vulnerabilities in Web applications and builds tools to detect and mitigate them. In addition, we investigate how to best notify affected sites about the vulnerabilities we found. This way, our insights do not only serve us, but can help administrators close their security holes, impacting the overall security of the Web.
Mobile devices can pose severe privacy threats but at the same time offer with their particular setting great opportunities to create more secure systems that put the users back into control over their data. In our research, we take this opportunity and improve mobile system security from hardware primitives to middleware design to the user's central role in the data protection.
Our research explores the boundaries of what is possible in secure computation: What are the strongest possible security guarantees and strongest functionality we can achieve under the weakest possible assumptions?
I see Cyber-Physical Systems as the new frontier of cybersecurity: my goal is to understand threats & defenses based on interactions between physical and digital systems, and to translate cybersecurity principles to engineered systems.
Our society regularly faces devastating and largely anonymous cyber attacks. We explore automated, reliable, and accurate methods to identify the origin of cyber attacks -- an important step to hold anonymous attackers responsible for their action.
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning offer great benefits to industry and society in general. While we are advancing the state of the art of future intelligent systems, we equally seek compliance with our expectations on security, privacy and safety.
If you decide to pursue a science career at CISPA, we will support you through all stages of your career development.
We offer a world-class international research environment and are committed to the highest academic standards. Granting extensive resources to our researchers, CISPA is an attractive destination for the best scientific talent from all over the world. Currently, our research pivots around six research areas.
ERC GRANTS
awards for individual research contributions
long-term scientific impact awards
12018-2024
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CISPA researchers have already received numerous scientific prizes and awards. Among the most important of these are the 15 ERC Grants that our researchers have won to date. With these grants, the EU supports excellent scientists and their groundbreaking research.
©ERC
CISPA researchers have already received numerous scientific prizes and awards. Among the most important of these are the 15 ERC Grants that our researchers have won to date. With these grants, the EU supports excellent scientists and their groundbreaking research.