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Kollegiengebäude am Kronenplatz (Geb. 05.20)
Kaiserstr. 89
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![]() Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer |
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Gruppe: SECUSO Sprechstunden: n.V. Raum: 5C-02.2 CS 05.20 Tel.: +49 721 608-45045 melanie volkamerJqu4∂kit edu |
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Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer is a full professor at KIT in the Department of Economics and Management. She leads the SECUSO research group. From August 2016 until March 2018 she was a Professor (Kooperationsprofessur) at the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany). From December 2015 until December 2018, she has been appointed Full Professor for Usable Privacy and Security at Karlstad University (Sweden). Before she was an Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt. Prof. Volkamer has been heading the research group "SECUSO - Security, Usability and Society" since 2011. From May 1st to August 31st 2011, she worked as a visiting researcher at CMU/CUPS.
10/2008 | Ph.D. Degree Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Koblenz-Landau, with summa cum laude (meaning 'with highest honor') Thesis: Evaluation of electronic voting. Requirements and evaluation procedures to support the responsible election authority. Supervisors: Prof. R. Grimm, Prof. J. Schwenk |
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04/2004 | Diploma in Computer Science Dipl.-Inform. from Saarland University with 1.2 (on a 1.0 to 4.0 scale while 1.0 being the best possible grade) Thesis: Development and implementation of a voting protocol for council elections. Supervisors: Prof. J. Siekmann, Prof. D. Hutter |
Since 01/2018 | Professor (W3) for Security Engineering Karlruhe Institute of Technology |
08/2016-03/2018 | Professor (W3 Kooperationsprofessur) for Security, Usability, and Society Technische Universität Darmstadt |
12/2015-12/2017 |
Full Professor for Usable Privacy and Security (till end of March 2016 part time): Karlstad University, Sweden Privacy and Security Research Group |
01/2012-08/2016 |
Assistant Professor (since April 2016 part time): Research Group SECUSO (Security, Usability and Society) at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) - successfully evaluated in 2014; Head of the Usable Security Lab at the Center for Advanced Security Research |
12/2008-01/2012 | Post Doctoral Researcher: TU Darmstadt / Research Area Coordinator: CASED |
05/2011-07/2011 | Guest Researcher: Carnegie Mellon University |
03/2007-11/2008 |
Research Assistant: University of Passau Research Manager: Institute of IT-Security and Security Law |
01/2007-02/2007 | Guest Researcher: TU Eindhoven |
05/2004-12/2006 |
Research Assistant: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence |
2018 | Best Paper Award System Software & Security: SAC 2018 |
2017 | Highly Commended Award: Information and Computer Security 2017; Best Paper Award Runner-up: ARES 2017 |
2013 | Best Paper Awards: TRUST 2013 and LexisNexis Best Paper Awards (Top10-Papaers) |
2012 |
Best Paper Awards: ICIMP 2012 and EVOTE 2012 |
2011 |
Assistant Professorship: University of Bonn (rejected) DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Post Doctoral Scholarship: Carnegie Mellon University (Cylabs for Usable Privacy and Security, Prof. L. F. Cranor) |
2009 |
Winner: Ph.D. Award from the University of Koblenz-Landau Nominated and citation: Ph.D. Award - German computer science society (GI) |
2008 |
Invited Expert: German Federal Constitutional Court - evoting concerns Invited Expert: Council of Europe - development of evoting recommendations |
2007 |
Invited Expert: OSCE - election observation mission to Estonia (Internet voting) Invited Expert: City of Hamburg - evoting concerns (digital election pen) Invited Expert: Council of Europe - development of evoting recommendations DAAD Ph.D. Scholarship: Technical University Eindhoven (Prof. B. Schoenmakers) |
2006 | TED Scholarship: National University of Ireland (Prof. P. Gibson, Dr. M. McGaley) |
2004 |
Diploma Thesis Award of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) |
Information about current and past teaching activites is provided here.
Conference/ Workshop Organization |
USEC 2017, EuroUSEC (PETS pre-workshop) in Darmstadt 2016, E-Vote-ID 2016 in Bregenz, Innovations in Mobile Privacy and Security (ESSoS Workshop) 2016 in London, STAST (CSF Workshop) 2015 in Verona, Usable Security Day 2015 in Darmstadt, EVOTE2012-2014 in Bregenz, E-Voting 2013 and RiskCom 2013 in Koblenz, TRUST 2012 Socio-economic Strand in Vienna, Usable Security and Privacy in Darmstadt 2011; Re-Vote2011 in Trient; eVoting Ph.D. Workshop 2006 in Saarbrücken, 2008 in Passau, 2009 in Darmstadt and 2011 in Krems; CAST Workshop eVoting 2008 - 2010 in Darmstadt; VOTE-ID 2007 in Bochum. |
PC Membership/ Editorial Board |
USEC 2016 and 2015; FC EVoting workshop 2016; IFIP SEC 2016, 2015 and 2011; TRUST COM 2015, 2012, and 2011; JETS – The USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems 2013 - 2015; VOTE-ID 2007 - 2015; SOUPS 2014 and 2012; HICSS 2014; HCI International 2013 and 2014 ’Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust’; GI Security 2016, 2014, and 2010; STAST 2011 - 2014; EGOVIS & EDEM 2012 and 2014; TRUST 2012 and 2013; IRIS 2006 - 2013; Book ’Design, development, and use of secure electronic voting Systems’ 2013; EVT/WOTE 2011 and 2012; IWSSI 2012; British HCI 2011; CeDem 2011; ARES 2006 - 2011; EDem 2007 - 2011; Re-Vote 2009 and 2011; EVOTE 2006, 2008, and 2010; E-Voting 2008 - 2010; CAST Award 2006 - 2009. |
Reviewer | CHI 2014 - 2016; Journal of Cybersecurity 2015; TDSC (IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Journal) 2014; IJHCS (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies) 2014; Computer & Security 2014; IEEE Security & Privacy 2013 and 2014; and JISA (Journal of Information Security and Applications) 2013. |
Membership |
ACM since 2014, GI since 2005; election official (GI elections 2005 and 2007); Head of GI group ECOM since 2010; GI working group (WG) CC-Schutzprofile since 2007; FIDIS Ph.D. consortium 2005 - 2007; IFIP WG ’Research on Information Systems in Public Administration’ since 2007 and ’Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance’ since 2012; Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) since 2011. |
Services at TU Darmstadt |
Several Ph.D. commission e.g. Delphine Christin, Sidi Mohamed El Yousfi Alaoui, Heike Schröder, Albrecht Petzoldt, Matthias Keil, Paul Baecher, Sebastian Biedermann, Sascha Hauke, Florian Folk, Martin Vagil, and Rachid El Bansarkhani; Equal opportunity commissioner of the department from 2012 - 2014; responsible for CASED gender equality activities 2008 - 2010; Search committee for the professorship in ’Cyber Peace’ (2014), ’Algebra’ (2012) and in ’Computer Vision’ (2010); Ethic commission 2012–2016; STIPET - graduate school commission 2013–2016. |
Ph.D. Committees (external) |
'Shaping information security behaviors related to social engineering attacks' at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2016); ’Modeling User Perception and Behavior when Intreacting with a Mobile Payment System’ at TU Berlin (2016);’Privacy and Security Risks Analysis of Identity Management Systems’ at Gjovik University College (2013); and ’Using Formal Methods for Building more Reliable and Secure e-Voting Systems’ at the University of Trento (2010). |
Miscellaneous |
Project proposal reviewer for the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection 2016, the Hasler Stiftung in 2016, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in 2014 and 2015, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) 2014; Dagstuhl Seminars on electronic voting (invitation and participation) 2007 and 2011 as well as on ’Socio-Technical Security Metrics’ in 2014 and on ’Assessing ICT Security Risks in Socio-Technical Systems’ in 2016; Several security awareness events organized with the police, the Sparkasse Darmstadt, and the Consumer Protection Agency in 2014 and 2015; Search committee for chair ’Security’ at the University of Applied Science Minden (2013) and ’Security of Socio-Technical Systems’ (2013) at the University of Luxembourg. |