Education and Scientific Career
since 03.2026
Senior Academic Officer
- Teaching coordination and development
- Research strategy and project acquisition
- PhD supervision and mentoring
- Academic self-governance and administration
since 08.2025
Habilitation equivalence
- Recognition of independent research achievements and contributions to the academic community
- Granted the right to independently supervise PhD students and teach courses at the university level
since 11.2024
Research Group Leader
- PhD supervision and mentoring
- Research planning and project acquisition
since 11.2024
Pentester and Security Consultant as Freelancer
06.2022 - 02-2026
Project Coordinator of Graduate School
- Project supervision of 10 PhDs among 5 universities
- Administrative coordination
- Development and implementation of educational concepts
- Organization of workshops and conferences
07.2021 - 12.2025
Associated Principal Investigator at Cluster of Excellence CASA
- Support of PhD students and research networking
- Contribution to project development and acquisition
10.2020 - 02.2026
Postdoc at Ruhr University Bochum
- Independent teaching and student supervision
- Security research and project acquisition
04.2020 - 09.2020
Substitute Professorship at University of Konstanz
Teaching and research in cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems.
07.2017 - 03.2020
Postdoc at Ruhr University Bochum
- Teaching and support of graduate students
- Security research and project work
02.2012 - 06.2017
PhD at Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: On the Security of Single Sign-On
10.2004 - 01.2012
Dipl.-Ing. at Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis: Performance of Group Key Agreement Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks
Awards and Recognitions
2024
Excellent Teaching Award for the Lecture Message-Level Security at the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum
2022
CSAW Best Paper Award (2nd place) for the research paper Security of the Open Document Format
2022
Winner of 5x5000 competition: Online or presence teaching - it fits! with project eHacking
2019
CSAW Best Paper Award (1st place) for the research paper “Security of PDF Signatures”
Project & Funding Experience
| Funding Entity | Project | Role | Budget | Status / Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFG | Security and Privacy of PDF Documents | Formal applicant | EUR 666,000 | Started Nov 2024 |
| Ministry of NRW | ECSE.NRW | Administrative support, work package design, and financial planning. Formal applicant: Jörg Schwenk | EUR 698,493.75 | Completed |
| EU Horizon 2020 | FutureTrust | Administrative support and work package leader. Formal applicant: Jörg Schwenk | EUR 7,474,030.75 | Completed |
| BMWi Federal Ministry | SkIDentity (extension) | Administrative support, work package design, work package leader. Formal applicant: Jörg Schwenk | EUR 665,000 | Completed |
| BmBF | ID4Health | Work package leader. Formal applicant: Jörg Schwenk | Completed |
PhD Supervision
since 2024
Soren Borgstedt, Security and Privacy of PDF Documents
since 2024
Lilian Hildebrandt, Security of Long-term Preservation of Office Documents
since 2019
Louis Jannett, On the Security of Modern Single Sign-On
2019 - 2023
Simon Rohlmann, PhD thesis completed with summa cum laude
2017 - 2021
Jens Müller, PhD thesis completed with summa cum laude
Community and Academic Service
since 2021
ISO and DIN working groups, security advisory for PDF specifications
since 2021
PDF Association, working group on securing the PDF specification
since 2017
IETF and OpenID Connect Foundation, volunteer security advisory
2016 - 2026
Member of program committees and sub-reviewer at USENIX, RAID, WOOT, ACNS, CCS
since 10.2023
Faculty Council member (scientific staff group)
since 07.2025
Early Career Researcher Board member