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Research Areas
All research in ATHENE is structured into research areas, each following a clear mission. All research area missions contribute to the the overall mission of ATHENE through a number of research and development projects.
- Prof. Dr. Haya SchulmannProf. Dr. Michael WaidnerProf. Dr. rer. nat. Reiner Hähnle
- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schinzel
- Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann
- Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann
- Security of Web Ecosystem (Websec)Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner
- Completed Projects
- Asset-Driven Vulnerability Analysis with AI (VulnAssetAI)Dr.-Ing. Steven Arzt
- Dr. Jens Heider
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini
- Dr.-Ing. Steven Arzt
- Hardware-Support for Ensuring Dynamic Execution Integrity (AmbiDExTrous)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Koch
- Dr.-Ing. Steven Arzt
- Completed Projects
- Anonymous Credentials at Scale (Cred @ Scale)Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Cryptography and Game Theory for Decentralized Exchanges (CRYPTOECONOMICS)Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Leakage Models for Masking: Bridging the gap between theory and practice (LEAK)Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions, Revisited (OPRF)Prof. Dr. Marc Fischlin
- PORTUNUSProf. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Koch
- Private Data Analysis via Cryptographic Protocols (PriDA)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider
- Probing Security Preserving Compiler (ProSecCo)Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Quantum-Resistance of Symmetric-Key PrimitivesProf. Dr. Marc Fischlin
- Secure and Fast Quantum Key Distribution (SATURN)Prof. Dr. Marc Fischlin
- Secure Compiler and Verification Tools for Masking Schemes in the Noisy Leakage Model (CoVeriNoisy)Prof. Dr. Amir MoradiProf. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Completed Projects
- PQC Building Blocks for eCard Applications - Quantum-resilient PACE (06/2022–12/2024)
- High Performance Implementations of PQC Schemes (01/2019–12/2024)
- Agile and Easy-to-use Integration of PQC Schemes (01/2020–12/2023)
- Design and Analysis of PQC Primitives (10/2020–12/2021)
- Dr. Dr. Annika Selzer
- Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Henkel
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Florian Steinke
- Cybersecurity Compliance in the Energy Sector (CybErgy+)Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Enzmann
- Legal aspects of cognitive cybersecurity (Legurity)Dr. Dr. Annika Selzer
- Legal aspects of offensive cybersecurity research in dark-X environments (Dark-X)Dr. Dr. Annika Selzer
- Privacy at Large (P@L)Dr. Dr. Annika Selzer
- Shared Childhoods – The Social Media Legacy of Parents (SeMe-Kids)Dr. Dr. Annika Selzer
- Completed Projects
- Legal framework for offensive cybersecurity research (LegRes) (01/2023–12/2025)
- Systematic privacy for large, real-life data processing systems (01/2022–12/2025)
Next Generation Biometric Systems (NGBS)
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Christian Rathgeb
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Naser Damer
- Embedded BiometricsM.Sc. Florian KirchbuchnerProf. Dr.-Ing. Naser Damer
- Operational Challenges in Face RecognitionProf. Dr. Christoph BuschProf. Dr. Christian RathgebDr.-Ing. Olaf Henniger
- Trustworthy Biometrics (TrustBio)Prof. Dr. Christoph BuschProf. Dr. Christian Rathgeb
- Completed Projects
- Fair Biometric Systems (01/2022–12/2025)
- Biometric Sample Quality Assessment (01/2019–12/2025)
- Secure Identity Management (01/2019–12/2025)
- Biometric Tampering Detection (01/2019–12/2022)
- Bias and Fairness in Biometric Systems (01/2020–12/2021)
Reliable and Verifiable Information through Secure Media (REVISE)
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Safeguarding LLMs against Misleading Evidence Attack (SafeLLMs)Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
- Secure tracking of AI media productions (STAMP)Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Dr. rer. nat. Marc-André Kaufhold
- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
Secure Digital Transformation in Health Care (SeDiTraH)
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Kohlhammer
- An in-depth Security Analysis of the FHIR ecosystem (FHIRLEY)Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schinzel
- Collecting and Sharing Distributed Medical Data of a Digital Twin - Securely, Privacy-friendly and User-centered (MeDiTwin)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Kohlhammer
- Privacy-Aware Domain-Adaptive Medical NLP (PADAM)Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
- Completed Projects
- Fake News and Conspiracy Theories (05/2020–12/2024)
- Quality Assurance of Biomedical Literature (05/2020–12/2024)
- JAB Codes for Secure Ad-hoc Documents (01/2021–12/2023)
- Know Your App (01/2020–12/2022)
- Secure Medical Data Sharing (09/2020–12/2021)
- Disinformation and Corona (05/2020–12/2021)
- Security Analysis of the German Corona Warn App (07/2020–12/2020)
- Advanced Reverse Engineering Techniques for Embeddedand Wireless Systems (ARTEWS)Prof. Dr. Alexander Wiesmaier
- Security and Privacy of Location Systems in Urban Environments (SPLocS)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Hollick
- Security of Fiber-Optic Critical Infrastructures (SecFOCI)Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter
- Completed Projects
- Architecture and Processes for Effective Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection in Smart Cities (SecArch) (01/2020–12/2024)
- Integrating Safety and Security Aspects in Secure Urban Infrastructures (SaSec) (01/2020–12/2023)
- Secure Urban Mesh Networks (Smesh) (01/2020–12/2023)
- Security Modelling and Simulation of Secure Urban Infrastructures (SeMS) (01/2020–12/2023)
- Security of Urban Infrastructures Against Cyberattacks (SecAttack) (01/2020–12/2023)
- Situation Awareness for Smart Cities (SiAware) (07/2019–12/2022)
Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence (SenPAI)
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Dr.-Ing. Oren Halvani
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity (HAICC)Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
- Interactive Visual Cyber Analytics for Trust and Explainability in Artificial Intelligence for Sensitive Data (VCAXAI)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Kohlhammer
- Dr.-Ing. Oren Halvani
- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
- Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach
- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
- Visual Forensic Person Verification (VisPer)Dr.-Ing. Oren Halvani
- Completed Projects
Trustworthy Data Ecosystems (TRUDATA)
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig
Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Distributed Usage and Information-Flow Control in the IoT (DUCIF)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Mantel
- High-Performance Analytical & Secure Query Processing for Cloud Databases (HiPeAC)Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig
- Trustworthy Decentralized Coordination and Authentication (TruDeCoA)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini
- Completed Projects
- Model-centric Deductive Verification of Smart Contracts (01/2022–12/2025)
- Probabilistic Data Structures in Adversarial Environments (01/2022–12/2025)
- Trusted and Scalable Shared Databases (01/2023–12/2024)
- Encryption Meets Search (01/2021–12/2024)
- Hardware-assisted Data Protection (01/2021–12/2024)
- Trusted Multiparty Computation as a Service (01/2021–12/2024)
- Trusted Utilization of Personal Data (01/2021–12/2024)
- Securing Refinements of Distributed Workflows (01/2021–08/2024)
- Cryptographic Primitives for Secure Decentralized Protocols (01/2019–12/2022)
- Distributed Ledger & Multiparty Computation (01/2019–12/2022)
- Federated Machine Learning (01/2019–12/2022)
User-centered Security and Privacy (UCSP)
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann
Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter
- AddressIng Deceptive designs with a tech-assisted citizen science Approach (AIDA)Dr. rer. nat. Nina Gerber
- A PrIvacy companion for mOtivatioN andknowlEdge transfER (PIONEER)Dr. rer. nat. Ephraim ZimmerDr. rer. nat. Nina GerberProf. Dr. Andreas HeinemannProf. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter
- A Security Mechanism to Detect and MitigatePerceptual Manipulations in Extended Reality (XR-GUARD)Prof. Dr. Jan Gugenheimer
- User-Centered Technology Design for Cyber Situational AwarenessProf. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter
- Visualization-based Technologies as Enablers for Privacy Sovereignty Online (PriVis)Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Kohlhammer
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Future Financial Applications (ZKFin)Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D.
- Completed Projects
- Fingerprinting Detection and Remediation in Mobile Apps (01/2022–12/2024)
- Comprehensive Probabilistic QoSec-Assessment (ComPAss) (01/2019–12/2024)
- Economics of Cybersecurity (EcoSec) (01/2020–12/2022)
- Technical Support for the Implementation of Requirements in Applications in Accordance with GDPR (TECHIRA) (08/2019–12/2022)
- Easy-to-use Processes and Tools for User-Centric Co-Development of PETs (07/2019–12/2022)
- Formal QoSec for Comparison and Composition (FoCC) (05/2019–12/2022)
- Data Economy and Privacy—An International and Intercultural Perspective (01/2019–12/2022)
- PETs for Smart Cities in Security Situations (01/2019–12/2022)
- PETs in Disease-Management Programs to Reduce Health Care Costs (01/2019–12/2022)
- Practical Private Set Intersection for Data Protection (01/2019–12/2022)
- Privacy Risks and Safety in Machine Learning (PRisMa) (01/2019–12/2022)
- Quantitative and Probabilistic QoSec in Complex HW/SW-Systems (QPSys) (01/2019–12/2022)
- Visualization of Critical Aspects for Data Analysis and Privacy (01/2019–12/2022)
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