About & Impressum

Publications

A list of all my publications can be found on my ORCID.

Education

PhD in the area of automotive digital forensics URL to Dissertation Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) 2019–2023 (defended on December 15th, 2023
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Download Thesis Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt 2018–2020
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Download Thesis Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt 2014–2018

Experience

Post-Doctoral researcher Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 2025–present
Research associate Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany 2022–2024
Security incident repsonse, threat intelligence, and content engineering AUDI AG, Germany 2018–2022
Security research Airbus Defence and Space, Germany 2016–2018
Software development BIVAL GmbH 2015–2016

Lectures

Web-Security Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Computer science (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) Summer term 2025
Networks, Databases,and Cloud Computing University of Groningen IT for law (B.Sc.) Winter term 2024–2025
Guest lecture on automotive digital forensics Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing (B.Sc. & M.Sc.) Summer term 2023
IT Security Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt Artificial Intelligence (B.Sc.) Winter term 2022
Security of web-based and mobile applications Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt User Experience Design (B.Sc.). Summer term 2021–2024

Memberships

Digitalcourage e.V. 2023–present
Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) 2023–present
Neuland Ingolstadt e.V. 2022–present
German Chapter of the ACM e.V. 2021–2024
Chaos Computer Club 2020–present

Academic experiences

DFRWS EU PC member 2024–present
DFRWS EU Sub-reviewer 2022–2024
DFRWS APAC Sub-reviewer 2024
IARA SECURWARE Session chair 2024
IARA SECURWARE Reviewer 2022, 2024
ACM CSCS Organization committee 2020–2022

Public speaker

37C3 Unlocking the Road Ahead: Automotive Digital Forensics (Recording) 2023
9th EU MITRE ATT&CK Community Workshop Defense and Detection in Depth using MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE D3FEND, and NIST SP 800-53 2022
IARA SECURWARE Tutorial Automotive Forensics - A Hans-on Showcase (Recording) 2021
Radar2 Conference (r2con) Where is my Ransom? Hunting for Ransomware Gangs using radare2 and Yara (Recording) 2020
CS3 Stockholm (CS3STHLM) Automotive DoIP and forensic analysis for automotive (Recording) 2019
5th International VDI Conference - Cyber Security for Vehicles Challenges and Opportunities in Forensic Anlaysis for State-of-the-art and Future Vehicles 2019

Impressum

Name: Kevin Mayer
Contact: mail[at]kmyr[dot]de