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Research foci
- Steganography and steganalysis
- Digital forensics
- Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET)
- Security and usability
- Economic and behavioral aspects of information privacy
- Virtual currencies and cryptographic financial instruments
- Economics of information security
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Education
- 2008
- Doctoral Degree from TU Dresden's Faculty of Computer Science
- 1998- 2003
- Studies of Communications, Economics and Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and Université Paris XII, France
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Positions
- since 03/2015
- Principal Investigator at the University of Münster, Germany, Department of Information Systems
- since 03/2015
- Professor for Security and Privacy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Institute of Computer Science
- since 2014
- Teaching position at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, responsible for the module "Security Management" in the distance learning course "Applied IT Security Master of Science"
- 09/2010- 02/2015
- Assistant Professor at the University of Münster, Germany, Department of Information Systems
- 2009- 2010
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California
- 2007- 2009
- Scientific Staff at the Chair of Privacy and Data Security (Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann), Technische Universität Dresden
- 2005- 2007
- Research Analyst at the European Central Bank, Directorate General Economics, Frankfurt/M.
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External functions
- 2015
- Program Co-Chair, Financial Cryptography and Data Security
- 2015
- Program Co-Chair, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW)
- 2014
- General Chair, 8th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics
- 2014
- Organizer and Program Co-Chair, 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research
- since 2013
- Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research
- since 2013
- Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security
- 2013- 2015
- Area Editor Security & Privacy, Information Systems
- 2013
- Track Co-Chair, 21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
- 2012
- Program Chair, 11th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)
- 2010
- Program Co-Chair, 12th Information Hiding Conference