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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 with a focus on the human voter.
Research interests
- Secure & Verifiable Remote Electronic Voting
- Human Factors in Remote Electronic Voting
Teaching
WiSe 2025/2026: Security, Usability und Society (Lab)
WiSe 2025/2026: Security and Privacy Awareness (Seminar)
SoSe 2025: E-Voting (Seminar)
WiSe 2024/2025: Security and Privacy Awareness (Seminar)
SoSe 2024: E-Voting (Seminar)
Co-Supervision
- Anne Hoff (supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer and Tobias Hilt): Investigating Authority Requirements and Voter Needs for the Design of an Online Election Reporting Mechanism (May 2026)
- 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
Nissen, C.; Hilt, T.; Budurushi, J.; Volkamer, M.; Kulyk, O.
2026. Electronic Voting – 10th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2025, Nancy, France, October 1–3, 2025, Proceedings. Ed.: D. Duenas-Cid, 158–174, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05036-6_10
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
Volkamer, M.
2025. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000179759
Hilt, T.; Berens, B.; Truderung, T.; Udovychenko, M.; Neumann, S.; Volkamer, M.
2025. doi:10.5445/IR/1000178558
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
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
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
Hilt, T.; Berens, B.; Truderung, T.; Udovychenko, M.; Neumann, S.; Volkamer, M.
2024, February 27. doi:10.35097/1934
Hilt, T.; Kulyk, O.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023 : Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, 221–237, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Hilt, T.; Sein, K.; Mällo, T.; Willemson, J.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Hilt, T.; Kulyk, O.; Volkamer, M.
2023. E-Vote-ID 2023, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Volkamer, M.; Hilt, T.
2020. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, 44 (2), 121–125. doi:10.1007/s11623-020-1234-z
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