Security and Cryptography

Brief overview of the research field

The issue of security plays a particularly important role in an increasingly interconnected world. Whether it’s the protection of privacy on mobile phones, the risk of identity theft in online banking or social networks, malicious access to the on-board computer in a car, or defense against coordinated hacking attacks on relevant infrastructure – these problems affect everyone and are ubiquitous. To tackle these and other questions requires a great deal of creativity and an ability to see things from the point of view of the attacker, in order to recognize and address weaknesses.

Since 2014, a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity has been offered in Saarbrücken. With CISPA, a research institute specific to this field was founded. Research in this area is also carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the Department of Computer Science.

Professors in this field

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes
Scientific Director and Professor, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Information Security and Cryptography
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-3259
Assistant: +49 681 302-3249
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Prof. Dr. Cas Cremers
Professor, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Security and Formal Methods
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 106
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-70986
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Prof. Dr. Peter Druschel
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Distributed Systems
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Saarland Informatics Campus
E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 9303-9100
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Prof. Dr. Anja Feldmann
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)
Internet Architecture
Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)
Saarland Informatics Campus
E1 4, R. 518
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 9325-3501
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Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz
Professor, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 1.01
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-71969
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Prof. Dr. Deepak Garg
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Computer Security and Privacy, Formal Logic, Programming Languages
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Saarland Informatics Campus
E1 5, R. 412
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 9303-9201
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Prof. Dr. Krishna Gummadi
Scientific Director and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Networked Systems
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS)
Saarland Informatics Campus
E1 5, R. 434
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 9325-670
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Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow
Professor, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
System Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 307
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-70797
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge
Co-opted Professor and Professor, Saarland University
Law and Informatics
Saarland University
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 108
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-5122
Assistant: +49 681 302-5120
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Junior faculty in this field

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Dr.-Ing. Sven Bugiel
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
System Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 309
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-57362
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Dr. Rayna Dimitrova
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Formal Methods
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Dr. Nico Döttling
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Public Key Cryptography and Secure Multiparty Computation
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E1 7, R. 1.08
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Dr. Lucjan Hanzlik
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Applied Cryptography
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus

66386 Sankt Ingbert
Germany
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Dr. Katharina Krombholz
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Dr.-Ing. Ben Stock
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Web Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 209
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
+49 681 302-57377
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Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Cyber-Physical Systems Security
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus

66386 St. Ingbert
Germany
+49 681 87083-2271
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Dr. Yang Zhang
Group Leader, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Privacy, Trustworthy AI, Disinformation
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Saarland Informatics Campus
E9 1, R. 319Germany
+49 681 302-5484
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