Michael Backes

Current Members

Alumni of my group (PhD students and Postdocs only)

The current position in the following list of former PhD students and postdocs is to the best of my knowledge and will potentially be outdated over time. The list does not include the around 100 Bachelor and Master students that I supervised in the last 20 years.

Rizwan Ashgar (current position: Reader, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey)
Matthias Berg (current position: Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI)
Pascal Berrang (current position: Co-Founder, Nimiq & Assistant Professor, Birmingham)
Sven Bugiel (current position: Tenured Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Oana Ciobotaru (current position: Cryptography Researcher, OpenZeppelin)
Duc Cuong Nguyen (current position: Associate General Manager, HCL Vietnam)
Erik Derr (current position: Lead OT Security Consultant, BT Group)
Markus Duermuth (current position: Associate Professor, Leibniz University Hannover)
Sascha Fahl (current position: Tenured Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Aurore Fass (current position: Tenure-Track Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Dario Fiore (current position: Associate Research Professor, IMDEA, Spain)
Martin Gagne (current position: Assistant Professor, Wheaton, USA)
Sebastian Gerling (current position: Chief Digital Officer, University of Hamburg)
Kathrin Grosse (current position: PostDoc, EPFL Lausanne)
Inken Hagestedt (current position: Privacy Expert, Apheris)
Lucjan Hanzlik (current position: Tenure-track Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Catalin Hritcu (current position: Tenured Faculty, MPI for Cybersecurity, Bochum)
Mathias Humbert (current position: Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, University of Lausanne)
Aniket Kate (current position: Associate Professor, Purdue University)
Agnes Kiss (current position: Cryptography Engineer, SINE Foundation)
Kamil Kluczniak (current position: Senior Consultant, Secunet Security Network AG)
Boris Koepf (current position: Scientist, Azure Research)
Hojoon Lee (current position: Assistant Professor, SKKU Singapore)
Matteo Maffei (current position: Professor, TU Vienna)
Sebastian Meiser (current position: PostDoc, ITS, University of Lubeck)
Esfandiar Mohammadi (current position: Associate Professor, ITS, University of Lubeck)
Praveen Manoharan (current position: PhD Student in Astrophysics, University of Tuebingen)
Stefan Nuernberger (current position: Managing Director, veecle)
Marco Patrigiani (current position: Assistant Professor, University of Trento)
Ivan Pryvalov (current position: Junior Research Group Leader, TU Cottbus-Senftenburg)
Tahleen Awazid Rahman (current position: Senior Data Scientist, Ozone)
Ahmed Salem (current position: Researcher, Microsoft)
Raphael Reischuk (current position: Partner and Head of Cybersecurity, Zuhlke Engineering AG)
Oliver Schranz (current position: CTO, AIS Advanced IT-Security Solutions)
Jonas Schneider-Bensch (current position: Cryptography Engineer, Crypsen)
Milivoj Simeonovski (current position: Product Security Programme Manager EMEA, ASSA ABLOY Group)
Malte Skoruppa (current position: Principal Engineer, Sonar)
Patrick Speicher (current position: Cyber Security Engineer, ZF Group)
Ben Stock (current position: Tenured Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Bartlomiej Surma (current position: Software Engineer, Google)
Philipp v. Styp-Rekowsky (current position: Co-Founder, Nimiq)
Dominik Unruh (current position: Professor, University of Aachen)
Yang Zhang (current position: Tenured Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Zhikun Zhang (current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
Zhengyu Zhao (current position: Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong University)