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The workshop/bootcamp "Women in Forensic Computing" goes into its next iteration alongside the DFRWS EU 2026 conference in Linköping, Sweden on March 23, 2026. The workshop will include a sequence of presentations and panels by women that introduce some fundamental and current topics of the field an...

RTG-funded researcher Lisa Marie Dreier received the best paper award at the fifth annual DFRWS APAC 2025 conference for the paper "Creating a Standardized Corpus for Digital Stratigraphic Methods with fsstratify" which she co-authored with Julian Uthoff, Martin Lambertz, Mariia Rybalka and Felix Fr...

PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn has been awarded the Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kriminalistik in recognition of her dissertation Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung in der Strafverfolgung (“Automated Facial Recognition in Criminal Investigations”). Before that, she received the Dr. Feldbausch-Preis ...

The lecture series on "Cybercrime and Forensic Computing" starts again on October 14, 2025. It features six introductory lectures on foundational topics of the field. Lectures will be held hybrid, physically at Juridicum (Schillerstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen) in the rooms given below, and online via Zoom....

During the infrastructure workshop on October 28, 2025, the funded researchers of the third cohort actively engaged with the website of the RTG and had the possibility to create (and delete) their own news items. The workshop was part of the on-boarding process for new RTG members. One of the most i...

The annual Cybercrime Workshop of the RTG took place from September 15-19, 2025, at Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, giving all members of the RTG the chance to interact and discuss their research. In 2025, the newly hired members of the third cohort of funded researchers attended for the first time. ...

Five members of the first cohort of the RTG, Nicole Scheler, Jenny Ottmann, Dominic Deuber, Benedikt Lorch and Janine Schneider visited the weekly RTG research seminar on June 26, 2025, and discussed their view on possible careers after the PhD with the attendees. Thanks for visiting!

Lutz Schröder, one of the PIs of RTG 2475, receives the 2025 Award for Doctoral Supervision at FAU. The award is granted by the Doctoral Researchers’ Representatives of FAU upon nomination by doctoral candidates once for every School. Lutz receives the award for FAU's School of Engineering. This ack...

The traditional joint meeting of the German research and training groups in Computer Science took place from June 15th until June 18th, 2025 at Schloss Dagstuhl. It was hosted by the HPI Research School, University of Potsdam. The RTG "Cybercrime and Forensic Computing" was represented by funded res...

Tthe International Summer School on Cybercrime and Forensic Computing ended in Nürnberg on June 6, 2025, with the traditional Mock Trial, during which several interdisciplinary teams debated over the interpretation fitness tracker data in a murder case. A panel of international experts (f.l.t.r. Rad...