Activities

Functions and Steering Committee Memberships:

• since 2024: Director of Ulm University’s computing center and library (kiz)
• since 2025: Responsible for bwHPC-S5 for Ulm University
• since 2025: Representative of Ulm University at the DFN
• since 2025: Representative of Ulm University at the ZKI
• since 2024: Member: Arbeitskreis der Leiterinnen und Leiter der wissenschaftlichen Rechenzentren (ALWR) in Baden-Württemberg
• since 2024: Member: AG der Bibliotheksdirektorinnen und –direktoren in Baden-Württemberg (AG BibDir)
• since 2024: Member: Senatsausschuss Lehre, Universität Ulm
• since 2024: Member: Lenkungsausschuss des Projekts Campusportal zur Einführung von HISinOne an der Universität Ulm
• 2017-2023 (re-elected 2020): Elected Member of EURASIP Special Area Team (SAT) on Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security (BForSec)
• since 2015: Member: Europol EC3: Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUIng) Initiative
• 2014-2016: Member: Arbeitskreis kritische Informations- und Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen (AK KRITIS) of the German Informatics Society (GI) SIG Management für Informationssicherheit, SECMGT 
• 2013-2015: Member: EU NIS Public-Private Platform Working Group 3 on Secure ICT research and innovation; Leading the AoI (Area of Interest) on Trustworthy (Hyperconnected) Infrastructures

Other Memberships:

• IFIP TC11 Working Group 12 on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance
• IFIP TC13 Working Group 10 on Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability
• German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik), incl. SICHERHEIT (SIG SIDAR, SIG NETSEC et al.), since 2008
• ACM
• Gesellschaft der Freunde der FernUniversität e.V.
• Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
• IEEE

Nominations/Awards/Scholarships:

• My funded Research Projects (Grants)
• Elected Domain Expert, GI SIG (Fachbereich) Sicherheit, 2024.
• Nominated for Akademiepreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz (2019 and 2022).
• Featured Reviewer (ACM Computing Reviews), October 2018.
• Youngest German professor at a University of Applied Sciences (of all professors registered at hlb), September 2018.
• DAAD Scholarship for Academic Talks: Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, February 2016.
• Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015) for the paper: J. Kaur, S. Wendzel, M. Meier: Countermeasures for Covert Channel-internal Control Protocols, IEEE, 2015.
• Best Paper Award at the The Seventh International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP’12), Stuttgart, 2012 for the paper: S. Wendzel, J. Keller: Design and Implementation of an Active Warden Addressing Protocol Switching Covert Channels, 2012.
• Oscar-Karl-Forster Bücherstipendium, 2006.

Research Abroad:

• 4/2023: Visiting colleagues at Technical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (host: Prof. Dr. Wojciech Mazurczyk).
• 3/2023: Visiting colleagues at CentraleSupélec, Rennes, France (host: Prof. Dr. Jean-Francois Lalande).
• 11-12/2022: Visiting researcher at Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (IMATI), CNR, Genova, Italy (host: Dr. Luca Caviglione).
• 02/2016: Visiting colleagues at the Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (host: Dr. Sebastian Zander).
• 2013, 2014, 2015: several longer stays in Brussels, Belgium, for Fraunhofer Brussels as part of EU-related activities.
• 10/2013: Visiting colleagues at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (host: Prof. Dr. Wojciech Mazurczyk).
• 12/2011-01/2012: guest researcher at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, for the 2nd time for six weeks via project IT4SE (host: Dr. Masood Masoodian)
• 12/2010-01/2011: guest researcher at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, for six weeks via project IT4SE (host: Dr. Masood Masoodian)

Advisory Board/Editorial Board Memberships

• Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (JCSM)

Journal Special Issues as Guest Editor

• Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) special issue Fighting Cybersecurity Risks from a Multidisciplinary Perspective, 2023/2024, together with Aleksandra Mileva, Virginia N. L. Franqueira, and Martin Gilje Jaatun.
• IEEE Security & Privacy (S&P) special issue on Security & Privacy Issues on Home Globalization, 2022, together with Luca Caviglione, Aleksandra Mileva and Simon Vrhovec.
• Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) special issue on Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems, 2022, together with Luca Caviglione, Amir Houmansadr and Wojciech Mazurczyk.
• it – Information Technology (ITIT) special issue on Information security methodology and replication studies, 2022, together with Luca Caviglione, Aleksandra Mileva, Jean-Francois Lalande and Wojciech Mazurczyk.
• Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA) special issue on Multidisciplinary Solutions to Modern Cybersecurity Challenges, 2021, together with Luca Caviglione, Aleksandra Mileva and Simon Vrhovec.
• Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) special issue on Information Security Methodology, Replication Studies and Information Security Education, 2020, together with Luca Caviglione, Alessandro Checco, Aleksandra Mileva, Jean-Francois Lalande and Wojciech Mazurczyk.
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) special section on Cyber-Physical Security in Industrial Environments, 2019, together with Zhihan Lv, Wojciech Mazurczyk and Houbing Song.
• IEEE Security & Privacy special issue on Digital Forensics, part 2, together with W. Mazurczyk, L. Caviglione and S. Garfinkel, 2019.
• Security and Communication Networks (SCN) special issue Emerging and Unconventional: New Attacks and Innovative Detection Techniques, 2018, together with Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk and Sebastian Zander.
• IEEE S&P Magazine special issue on Digital Forensics, part 1, together with W. Mazurczyk, L. Caviglione and S. Garfinkel, 2017.
• Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) special issue on Security, Privacy and Reliability of Smart Buildings, together with J. Keller, 2016.

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Chair:
  • 13th GI Sicherheit (SICHERHEIT 2024), Worms, DE, 2024.
  • 4th International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR), co-located with ARES 2022, Vienna, AT.
  • 3rd International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR), co-located with ARES 2021, Vienna, AT.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR), co-located with ARES 2020, Dublin, IR.
  • International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR) (IWSMR 2019), held in conjunction with ARES’19 in Canterbury, UK.
  • International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Reliability of Smart Buildings (SmartBuildingSec’16), Bonn, 2016.
• (PC) Co-chair:
  • Program Co-chair of European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2026 (EICC), 2026, Darmstadt, DE.
  • Program Co-chair of European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2023 (EICC), 2023, Stavanger, NO.
  • Program Co-chair of European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2020 (EICC, former Central European Cybersecurity Conference, CECC) (also workshop co-chair), 2020, Rennes, FR.
  • Program Co-chair of GI Sicherheit 2016, Bonn, 2016.
  • Co-chair of 8th SPRING graduate workshop on reactive security of the GI SIG SIDAR, Munich University of Applied Sciences, 2013
• Session Organizer:
  • IH&MMSec’24 Special Session on Stego Malware: Attribution, Analysis and Detection (together with Claus Vielhauer), Baiona, Spain, 2024.
  • Session on High Performance Mission Critical System Development at HPCS 2019 in Dublin.
  • Session on Emerging threats of Criminal Use of Information Hiding: Usage Scenarios and Detection Approaches at the 16th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2017), Magdeburg, 2017
  • Session on “Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust for Smart Buildings” as well as member of the program board of Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust (HAS) Conference @HCII 2015, Los Angeles, 2015
• Organizer:
  • Dagstuhl Research Meeting 25423: Methodological Advancements in Information Hiding, Dagstuhl castle, 2025.
  • CAST-e.V.-Workshop zum Thema “Sicherheit von Smart Buildings”, Darmstadt, 2017.
  • Industry workshop “Sicherheit in Smart Buildings”, Fraunhofer inHaus-Zentrum, Duisburg, 2015.
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Building Automation Reliable Infrastructure (BARNI) Workshop, Fraunhofer FKIE, 2014-2015.

Journal Reviews for:

IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Spectrum magazine (Spectrum), IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE IT Professional Journal, ACM Computing Reviews, Journal of Universal Computer Science(JUCS), Elsevier Computers & Security (COSE), Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Journal of Information Security & Applications, Elsevier Information Sciences, Elsevier International Journal of Intelligent Networks, Springer Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Télécommunications (ANTE), Springer Journal of Hardware and Systems Security}, Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ), Wiley Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (JCSM), Int. Journal on Advances in Security, PeerJ Computer Science, IET Information Security, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Informatica Journal (Slovenian Society Informatika), Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, etc. pp.

(Technical) Program Committee Memberships:

• Selected Conferences:
  • ACSAC: ACSAC’25, ACSAC’24
  • ATC (Advanced and Trusted Computing): ATC’21, ATC’19
  • EICC (European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, former Central European Cybersecurity Conference): (pc co-chair ‘26), EICC’25, EICC’24, (pc co-chair ‘23), EICC’22, EICC’21, (pc co-chair ‘20), CECC’19, CECC’18, CECC’17 (initial event)
  • HAS (Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust): HAS’17, HAS’16, HAS’15
  • IFIP SEC: SEC’17, SEC’16, SEC’15
  • NSS: NSS’23, NSS’22, NSS’21, NSS’19, NSS’18, NSS’17
  • SICHERHEIT: Sicherheit’26, (chair Sicherheit’24), Sicherheit’22, Sicherheit’20, Sicherheit’18, (co-chair Sicherheit’16), Sicherheit’14.
  • CAST/GI Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit: 2025, 2024, (rejected invitation in 2023), 2022
• Selected Workshops:
  • CUING @ ARES (Criminal Use of Information Hiding): CUING’25, CUING’24, CUING’23, CUING’22, CUING’21, CUING’20, CUING’19, CUING’18, CUING’17 (initial event)
  • IWCC @ ARES (International Workshop on Cyber Crime): IWCC’25, IWCC’24, IWCC’23, IWCC’22, IWCC’21, IWCC’20, IWCC’19, IWCC’18, IWCC’17, IWCC’16, IWCC’15, IWCC’14
  • WTMC @ Euro S&P (Workshop on Traffic Measurement and Cybersecurity): WTMC’25, WTMC’24, WTMC’23, WTMC’21,
• Other PC Memberships (Selection): CyFRP’25, 4th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch “Network Softwarization” (2025), EUSIPCO’23, ACISP’20, EUSIPCO’19, IoT-SECFOR’19, IWDW’18, BioStar’18, D-A-CH Security’18, PerEnergy’17, AINA’17, D-A-CH Security’17, BigDAISy’17, BioStar’17, IEACon’16, PerEnergy’16, BioStar’16, D-A-CH Security’16, GLOBECOM’15, PerEnergy’15, BCSN’15, ICIMP’13, ISTP’13
• Invited reviews for: RAID’19, IECON’18, DIMVA’15, ICC’14
• … and several special issue PC memberships for journals.

Reviews for Funding Proposals:

• Innovationsförderagentur NRW/Forschungszentrum Jülich: NEXT.IN.NRW programme
• Norges forskningsråd (Norwegian Research Society)

Reviews for books:

• ACM Computing Reviews: multiple book reviews over the years (these appear in my list of publications as they are published reviews), since 2017
• WILEY-IEEE Scientific: book proposal review, 2013
• Galileo Press book review: Arnold Willemer: Linux-Server einrichten und administrieren mit Debian 6 GNU/Linux, 2011
• Galileo Press book review: Dirk Becker: OpenVPN. Das Praxisbuch, 2008
• Galileo Press book review: Thomas Theis: Einstieg in PHP5, 2006
• Galileo Press book review: Sascha Kersken: Handbuch für Fachinformatiker; reviewed chapter on IT security, 2005