Tobias Hilt, M.Sc.

Tobias Hilt, M.Sc.

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Curriculum Vitae

Tobias Hilt works as a scientific researcher in the SECUSO Research Group of Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer since January 2023. Before that, he graduated in Industrial Engineering with a Masters Degree at Karlsruhe University of Technology.

Tobias Hilt is part of the "Human & Societal Factors" team within Engineering Secure Systems (ESS), established initially in 2011 as one of three competence centers for Cybersecurity in Germany by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. His main research area is in verifiable remote electronic voting.

 

 

Research interests

  • Secure & Verifiable Remote Electronic Voting
  • Human Factors in Remote Electronic Voting

 

Teaching

SoSe 2025: E-Voting (Seminar)

WiSe 2024/2025: Security and Privacy Awareness (Seminar)

SoSe 2024: E-Voting (Seminar)

 

 

Co-Supervision

- Christian Mack (supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer and Tobias Hilt): Trust in Voting Machines after the 2024 US Presidential Election (September 2025)

- Fabian Habitzreither (supervised by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis and Tobias Hilt): E-Voting in India: A Historical Overview and Recent Developments (October 2024)

Ali Elbayari (supervised by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis and Tobias Hilt): Replication of the User Study from "Nothing Comes for Free: How Much Usability Can You Sacrifice for Security?" (August 2024)

- Tianqing Zhang (supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer and Tobias Hilt): Risk Perception of Individual Verifiability in Remote Electronic Voting (August 2024)

 

 

Research projects

 

Publications


2026
Proceedingsbeiträge
Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video Concerning Verifiable Internet Voting
Hilt, T.; Moser, F.; Matheis, P.; Volkamer, M.
2026. Electronic Voting – 10th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2025, Nancy, France, October 1–3, 2025, Proceedings. Ed.: D. Duenas-Cid, 107–123, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05036-6_7
2025
Forschungsberichte/Preprints
Audio & Video
Voting and verification process using a cast-as-intended verifiability approach with a second device
Hilt, T.; Berens, B.; Truderung, T.; Udovychenko, M.; Neumann, S.; Volkamer, M.
2025. doi:10.5445/IR/1000178558
2024
Proceedingsbeiträge
Usability and Understanding of Individual Verifiability in the 2023 GI-Election
Hilt, T.; Matheis, P.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Mensch und Computer 2024 – Workshopband, September 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws17-151
Recommendations for Implementing Independent Individual Verifiability in Internet Voting
Moser, F.; Grimm, R.; Hilt, T.; Kirsten, M.; Niederbudde, C.; Volkamer, M.
2024. 9th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID 2024), 35–53, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/e-vote-id2024_02
Systematic User Evaluation of a Second Device based cast-as-intended verifiability Approach
Hilt, T.; Berens, B.; Truderung, T.; Udovychenko, M.; Neumann, S.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Voting’24, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-69231-4_3
Forschungsdaten
Systematic User Evaluation of a Second Device based cast-as-intended verifiability Approach
Hilt, T.; Berens, B.; Truderung, T.; Udovychenko, M.; Neumann, S.; Volkamer, M.
2024, Februar 27. doi:10.35097/1934
2023
Proceedingsbeiträge
German Social Elections in 2023: An Overview and first Analysis
Hilt, T.; Kulyk, O.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023 : Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, 221–237, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Voter Perception of Cast-as-Intended Verifiability in the Estonian I-Vote Protocol
Hilt, T.; Sein, K.; Mällo, T.; Willemson, J.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
German Social Elections 2023: An Overview and first Analysis
Hilt, T.; Kulyk, O.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
2020
Zeitschriftenaufsätze
2018
Zeitschriftenaufsätze
Nutzerwahrnehmung der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung in WhatsApp
Nina Gerber; Verena Zimmermann; Birgit Henhapl; Sinem Emeröz; Melanie Volkamer; Hilt, T.
2018. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, 42 (11), 680–685. doi:10.1007/s11623-018-1024-z