Research Visits (Selection)

• 2022-2023: Guest Researcher in a Project with TU Ostrava, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2019: Karlstad University/Sweden, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2018: University of Surrey/U.K., opens an external URL in a new window
• 2018: NYU Tandon School of Engineering/U.S.A., opens an external URL in a new window
• 2017: University of Passau/Germany, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2016: University of Lancaster/U.K., opens an external URL in a new window
• 2015: University of Nikosia/Cyprus, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2013: Technical University of Munich/Germany, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2011: University of Wroclav/Poland, opens an external URL in a new window

Scientific Event Contributions and Talks (Selection)

• Conference Co-Chair: 23rd Central European Conference on Cryptology (CECC 2023), opens an external URL in a new window
• Workshop Organisation: Special Track "Enhancing Protection of Critical Infrastructures" der International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2022)", opens an external URL in a new window
• Technical Program Chair: 12th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2021
• Workshop Organization: International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Interdependent Critical Infrastructures (PCSCI 2021), colocated with ARES 2021 conference, opens an external URL in a new window
• Workshop Organisation: Special Track "Enhancing Protection of Critical Infrastructures" der International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)", opens an external URL in a new window
• Tutorial Organization: "Cybersecurity in Robotics" at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), opens an external URL in a new window
• Workshop-Organisation: Special Track "Protecting Critical Infrastructures in Crisis Situations" der 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019)", opens an external URL in a new window
• Invited talk: "On Theory and Practice  of Private Function Evaluation", at Tandon School of Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window, NY University Brooklyn, Sep.28, 2018
• Keynote speaker: "Security as a Game - Decisions under uncertainty in risk management", at NetWare 2018, Venice, Sep.20, 2018
• Invited talk (project presentation): "The synERGY Project", at the Energy Cluster Meeting 2018, Lakeside Park, Klagenfurt, 18.05.2018.
• Invited talk at VW Financial Services Germany: "Vertrauen und Misstrauen: Vorhersage von Risiken & Betrugserkennung", 27.02.2018
• Wissenschaftliche Tagung: Organisator der 8-th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2017), opens an external URL in a new window
• Invited talk (jointly with Ali Alshawish from the University of Passau): "A Game-theoretic Decision-making Framework for Physical Surveillance", 2017 Workshop on Novel Approaches in Risk and Security Management for Critical Infrastructures (https://cip-workshop.events/), Vienna, 19th and 20th September.
• Keynote speaker: "Quantum Cryptography – On Practical Networks and Their Design", at the 16th Conference on Knowledge in Telecommunication Technologies and Optics (KTTO 2016), 5th September 2016
• Invited talk: "Datensicherheit in unkontrollierbaren Umgebungen – Wo Kryptographie (nicht) helfen kann", at IMAGINE’16, 08th June, 2016.
• Wissenschaftliche Tagung: Co-Organisator der 15-th Central European Conference on Cryptology (CECC 2015), opens an external URL in a new window

External Reviews (Selection)

• Reviewer for the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, opens an external URL in a new window
• Expert for the Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen (AQAS e.V.), opens an external URL in a new window
• External product reviewer for the Rundfunk- und Telekom-Regulierungs GmbH, opens an external URL in a new window

Miscellaneous Projects (Selection)

• Open Source Computer-Algebra System "Sunset/FFapl" -- A crypto-programming language designed for Rapid Prototyping und eLearning kryptographischer Systeme github Project, licensed under GPL-3, opens an external URL in a new window
• R Package "HyRiM: Multicriteria Risk Management using Zero-Sum Games with Vector-Valued Payoffs that are Probability Distributions, opens an external URL in a new window", developed as part of the EU FP7 project Hybrid Risk Management for Utility Networks (HyRiM), opens an external URL in a new window; ongoing package maintenance.

2023

• Co-Chair of the 23rd Central European Conference on Cryptology (CECC 2023), opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications, opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Member of GameSec, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for MDPI Electronics, opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Member of 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, opens an external URL in a new window

2022

• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Security and Privacy, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for the Cyber Resilience Workshop at IEEE Computer Network Security Conference, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for the IEEE Communications Magazine, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for Elsevier Reliability Engineering & System Safety Journal, opens an external URL in a new window
• Book Reviewer for ArtechHouse Publishing, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for Elsevier Computers & Security, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Access, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for MDPI Applied Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Member of ISCRAM 2022, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, opens an external URL in a new window Conferences Community
• Reviewer for the 2022 Central European Conference on Cryptology, opens an external URL in a new window

2021

• Reviewer for Elsevier International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Co-Chair of the 12th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2021), opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Access, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, opens an external URL in a new window

2020

• Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, opens an external URL in a new window
• Book Reviewer for Artech House, opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Member of the First International Workshop on Engineering Resilient Robot Software Systems (ERRoSS 2020), opens an external URL in a new window
• TPC Member of the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2020), opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, opens an external URL in a new window

2019

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for IEEE Access, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for MDPI Games, opens an external URL in a new window
• Reviewer for Elsevier Journal on Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, opens an external URL in a new window

2018

• Guest Editor for Elsevier Computers & Security (ISSN 0167-4048) Special Issue on "Game Theory for Cyber Security", opens an external URL in a new window
• Guest Editor for Special Issue "Game Models for Cyber-Physical Infrastructures", opens an external URL in a new window of MDPI Games
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Security and Privacy
• TPC Member for Computer Networks Conference (CN2018, opens an external URL in a new window)
• Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications (ISSN: 0140-3664)
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• Reviewer for IEEE Access
• Reviewer for MDPI Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300)
• Reviewer for MDPI Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220)
• Reviewer for Springer Birkhäuser (Book Proposals)
• TPC Member/Reviewer for IEEE Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

2017

• TPC Member for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• TPC Member for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• TPC Member for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• TPC Member for IEEE Intelligent Systems
• TPC Member for Elsevier Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety
• TPC Member for Annals of Marine Science
• TPC Member for ACM Transactions on Security and Privacy
• Book Reviewer for Artech House

2016

• TPC Member for Smart Sciences Journal (Taylor & Francis)
• TPC Member for MDPI Cryptography
• TPC Member for Journal of Teknologi
• TPC Member for IEEE Software
• Book Reviewer for Artech House

2015

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computers
• Reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
• Reviewer for the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurement
• TPC member at the 7th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 27-29 July, Paris
• TPC member at the IEEE Region 10 Technical Symposium (TENSMYP), 13-15 May, Ahmedabad
• Reviewer for Artech House
• TPC member at the DACH conference
• TPC member at the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing, 22 - 24 July 2015, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

2014

• TPC member at the International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI), June 22 - 26, Seville, Spain
• TPC member at the IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 30 March - 2 April, Dubai, UAE
• TPC member at the DACH conference
• TPC member at the 3rd International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2014, 15 - 17 July, Lisbon, Portugal
• TPC member at International Workshop on Engineering Cyber Security and Resilience (ECSaR), May 31, 2014, Stanford, CA, USA
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computers
• Reviewer for "IEEE Software"

2013

• TPC member at the International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI), July 21 - 26, Nice, France
• TPC member at the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 26-29 August 2013, Bali
• TPC member at the DACH conference
• TPC member at the 3rd International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2013, 22 – 24 July, Prague, Czech Republic
• Reviewer for the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurement
• Reviewer for the Hindawi Journal of Computer Networks and Communications

2012

• TPC member at the IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 7-10 May, Istanbul, Turkey
• TPC member at the DACH conference
• TPC member at the 3rd International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2012, 17-19 July, Lisbon, Portugal
• Reviewer for the Wiley Journal on Security and Communication Networks
• Reviewer for the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurement
• Reviewer for iConcept Press Ltd.
• Reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
• Reviewer for the Elsevier Ain Shams Engineering Journal

2011

• TPC member at the DACH conference
• Reviewer for the Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group (ISYOU)
• Reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
• TPC member at the DACH conference