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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...

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.