Faculty

Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow

Tenured CISPA faculty and full professor for information security TU Dortmund.
	rossow [at] cispa.de (PGP key)
	https://christian-rossow.de

Assistant

Ling Jiang

Faculty office member and assistant.
	jiang [at] cispa.de (PGP key)
	+49 (0)681 / 87083 - 2536

PostDoc(s)

Dr. Nanda Rani

Agentic AI for security
	nanda . rani [at] cispa.de

PhD students (alphabetic order)

Amit Choudhari

Loves microarchitectural details such as prefetchers.
	amit [dot] choudhari [at] cispa . de

Apostolos Chatzianagnostou

Prefers secure software.
	apostolos [dot] chatzianagnostou [at] cispa . de

Bogdan Cebere

Network security person with a focus on TLS.
	bogdan [dot] cebere [at] cispa . de

Leon Trampert

Eats new Web API standards for breakfast. Joint supervision with Michael Schwarz.
	leon [dot] trampert [at] cispa . de

Marcos Sánchez Bajo

Likes program analysis and (in)secure software.
	marcos [dot] sanchez-bajo [at] cispa . de

Yepeng (Eric) Pan

Looking at the security layer 3/4 protocols.
	yepeng [dot] pan [at] cispa . de

Alumni

• Silvia Sebastián: PostDoc until 12/2025
• Fabian Schwarz: PhD student until 08/2024 (thesis), moved to Nvidia
• Jonas Bushart: PhD student until 07/2023 (thesis), moved to Lufthansa Systems
• Markus Bauer: PhD student until 01/2023 (thesis), moved to Advanced IT-Security Solutions
• Johannes Krupp: PhD student until 04/2022 (thesis), moved to Crowdstrike
• Ahmad Ibrahim: PostDoc until 03/2022, moved to Continental
• Ilya Grishchenko: PostDoc until 11/2021, moved to UC Santa Barbara
• Benedikt Birtel: PhD student until 03/2021, moved to Hydac)
• Giorgi Maisuradze: PhD student until 12/2019 (thesis), moved to Qualcomm
• Giancarlo Pellegrino: PostDoc until 10/2017, now CISPA faculty