Since November 2017, I am a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Software and Systems Engineering, headed by Professor Pretschner. The focus of my research is the field of security configuration. Security can be cumbersome and dangerous. If you lost the key for an encrypted hard drive, you could not recover the data, and there are lost forever. Thus, most of the nowadays systems are configured insecurely and open for attacks. To overcome this problem, I am working together with our industry partner to assess a system’s state regarding its security-configuration and configure the system to be as secure as possible. Thereby, we created our hardening process to be as automated as possible so that it can be used in the context of DevOps, too. For further details about our project, please have a look at our project page.

• 2016 – 2017: M.Sc. in Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

  Master’s thesis’s title: Model Versioning with Consistency Conservation in Vitruvius in the context of the VITRUVIUS project; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner; advisors: Dr. Erik Burger, Heiko Klare

• 2012 – 2016: B.Sc. in Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

  Bachelor’s thesis’s title: Partikelbasierte Erweiterung und Laufzeitoptimierung der Prädiktion von Posen gesuchter Objekte mittels Implicit Shape Models in the context of the Active Scene Recognition project; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Dillmann; advisor: Pascal Meißner

• Security
• Security-Configuration
• Hardening
• Model-driven Software Development

If you are interested in working with me, either have a look at the open theses page or simply write me an email. If you are interested in making machines and systems more secure and there was no open topic on this site or on the open theses page, you could still write me. Maybe I already have some idea for a bachelor/master thesis which is not yet on the homepage.

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