Professional Activities

Technical program committee chair

IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (A*) PerCom, 2025
IEEE PerCom Work-in-Progress, 2023
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2021
IEEE PerCom, 2020
Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs "Sicherheit - Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit" (GI Sicherheit), 2020, 2022
IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Smart Living Spaces co-located with IEEE PerCom (PerLS), 2018
IEEE PerCom Demos, 2018
GI Sicherheit PhD forum, 2016-2018
IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services co-located with the IEEE PerCom (PerEnergy), 2016
IEEE PerCom PhD forum, 2015
IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services co-located with the IEEE PerCom (PerEnergy), 2015
Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy co-located with NetSys (MidSEE), 2015
Track “Security and Content Protection and DRM”, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2014

Workshops chair

IEEE PerCom, 2019

Workshop chair

Usable Security and Privacy Day (USP Day), 2021-2022
Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency co-located with PETS, 2019
How will Big Data Influence our Life? – Interactions between Communication, Economy, Security, and Documents, 2013
11. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch “Sensornetze” (FGSN), 2012

Panel chair

Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys), 2023

Publication chair

Cyber Physical Systems-Internet of Things Week (incl. HSCC, ICCPS, IoTDI, IPSN, and RTAS) (CPS-IoT Week), 2022
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2021
IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2020
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2016-2017

EDAS chair

IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2022

Editor

Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM), since 2018
Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), since 2023
EURASIP Journal on Information Security

Technical committee member

Elsevier Computer Communications (2015-2018)

TPC member

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2017-2018
IEEE International Conference on Communications – Selected Area In Communication: Internet of Things (ICC SAC IoT), 2016
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2016
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2010-2015
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2020
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2017-2023
IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2021-2022
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2014-2018
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2014-2015
IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2015-2016
IEEE International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition co-located with IEEE PerCom (CoMoRea), 2015-2016
IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications co-located with IEEE LCN (SenseApp), 2011-2017
IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security co-located with IEEE MASS (WSNS), 2010-2012
IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems co-located with IEEE ICC (IoT/CPS Security), 2015
IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services co-located with IEEE WoWMoM (IoT-SoS), 2014-2015
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security in the Digital Economy co-located with ESORICS (DETIPS), 2020
International Conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), 2016
International Conference on Data Protection, Regulatory Compliance, and Innovative Technologies (PrivIno), 2022-2023
International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP), 2015
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2018
International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC), 2015
International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management (IFIPSC), 2016-2017, 2021
International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC), 2013
International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Reliability of Smart Buildings co-located with GI Sicherheit (SmartBuildingSec), 2016
International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust co-located with IEEE CSF (STAST), 2015
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2015
Annual Privacy Forum (APF), 2023-2024
Innovations in Mobile Privacy and Security (IMPS), 2016
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS Posters), 2016
Winter Simulation Conference – Networks and Communications Track (WSC), 2014
Workshop on Data Management in Participatory Sensing co-located with IEEE MDM (DMPS), 2012
Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security co-located with Mensch und Computer, 2019-2021

Reviews

ACM SIGMOD Record, 2015
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2015
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2014
IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2014
IEEE Security and Privacy, 2014
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETCSI), 2014
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2013
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2014
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2013
Elsevier Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), 2021
Elsevier Information Sciences (INS), 2016
Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2013
Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC), 2014-2022
Annual Privacy Forum (APF), 2023-2024
Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT), 2021
International Journal of Communication Systems, 2014
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2013
International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), 2014
International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC), 2021
Computer Networks (COMNET), 2014
EURASIP Journal on Information Security, 2013
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2013
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs),2022
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2012
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2015-2016, 2020
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2016
ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 2009
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2011
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), 2012
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2014
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2014
IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2013
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2023
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2014
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2013
International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-cube), 2013
International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2013
International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC), 2013
British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), 2014
Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), 2020
Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networks (UbiCoNet), 2011

Proposal reviewer

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Agence pour la Recherche (ANR)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Examiner for doctoral theses

University of University of Twente, 2022
University of Kassel, 2021
University of Passau, 2021
Aalto University, 2020
University of Stuttgart, 2019
Lund University, 2018
University of Göttingen, 2017
TU Berlin, 2017
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Gjøvik, 2016
TU Darmstadt, 2016
University of Bremen, 2016

Internal Board Member

Elected member of the Board of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Göttingen, since 2020
Elected director of the Institute of Computer Science, since 2023
Elected member of the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for Computer Science, since 2023
Elected member of the Board of the Institute of Computer Science, since 2019
Elected vice director of the Institute of Computer Science, 2019-2023
Elected member of the Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2019-2023

External Board Member

Member of the ethics advisory board of the BMBF research project “DeineStadt”, since 2023
Jury member for "The Grand Challenges of Informatics 2025" of the German Informatics Society, since 2022
Elected member of the Steering Committee of the GI/ITG Section "Communication and Distributed Systems” (KuVS), since 2022
Elected member of the Advisory Board for University Professors of the German Informatics Society (GI), since 2020
Expert in the Committee of the "Services and Applications" Area of the Information Technology Society in the VDE, since 2020
Elected vice-speaker of the Steering Committee of the "Security" Area of the German Informatics Society (GI), since 2019
Wise Council of Cyber Security Experts, Cyber Security Cluster Bonn e.V, since 2019
Kuratorium of Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE), since 2018
Expert in the Steering Committee of the GI Area "Security", since 2018
Elected member of the GI Section "Privacy Enhancing Technologies" (PET), 2016-2024