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We are thrilled to announce that the OPEN vhb course “Cybercrime and Digital Prosecution”, developed by Prof. Dr. Christoph Safferling together with Dr. Marlene Wüst and Dr. Nicole Scheler—both alumni of the same Research Training Group—has been officially recognized for its outstanding media-didact...

PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn has been interviewed by the science journalism TV program Quarks by WDR (Wissenschaftsmagazin Quarks des WDR) on the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement. The video can be found here.

PostDoc Dr. Johanna Hahn has been awarded the Dr. Feldbausch-Preis for outstanding dissertations for her thesis "Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung in der Strafverfolgung" ("Automated Facial Recognition in Criminal Investigations"). The thesis is available open access at this link.  

The Summer School on "Cybercrime and Forensic Computing" will take place from June 3 – June 6, 2025 in Nürnberg. The summer school will be a one-week intensive course at the intersection of computer science and law. We are proud to present a list of high-profile speakers. More details on the program...

RTG 2475 is opening 10 new PhD positions in law and computer science. Application deadline for all positions is April 1, 2025. More details can be found in the official openings in German and English. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

From February 12th to February 15th, 2025, the funded PhD researchers visited the University of St. Gallen to collaborate with the research group of Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Monika Simmler and Prof. Dr. Nora Markwalder. The visit included a joint workshop on e-evidence, an internal workshop with te...

At the international conference DFRWS APAC 2024, Jan Gruber and Felix Freiling received the Best Student Paper Award for their article titled “The Cyber-traceological Model: A Model-based View of the Cybercriminalistic Task”. The paper is a result of Jan Gruber’s PhD research and deals with the stru...

To start the new semester, the RTG kicks off a talk series on System Security with three distinguished speakers: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz (CISPA) will present results on "Efficient and Scalable Fuzzing of Complex Software Systems" on Monday 5.11.2024, Prof. Dr. Martina Lindorfer (TU Vienna) will talk...

At this year's Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS USA) Lisa Marie Dreier, Céline Vanini, Frank Breitinger, Christopher Hargreaves and Felix Freiling received the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled "Beyond Timestamps: Integrating Implicit Timing Information into Digital Forensic Ti...

On July 3, 2024, a delegation of RTG members visited the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt, BLKA) in Munich. They were greeted by vice president Limmer and had the opportunity to interact with members of the digital forensics and cybercrime units at BLKA. The colla...