Education and programs

  • Jan 2025 → Jan 2026
    PostDoc, bidt
    Personal funding by the Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt)

  • Jun 2025 → Jan 2026
    FAUnext Career Program
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  • Jun 2021 → Dec 2023
    Dr.-Ing. - Automotive Digital Forensics
    Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt & Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Defense: December 15, 2023 (Dissertation)
    Supervised by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Freiling

  • Mar 2018 → Mar 2020
    Master of Science (M.Sc
    Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
    → Thesis (PDF)

  • Oct 2014 → Mar 2018
    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc
    Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
    → Thesis (PDF)

Experience

Professional Experience

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 2021–2024

Memberships

Professional activities

  • ACM CSCS 2020, Online, Organization committee
  • ACM CSCS 2021, Online, Organization committee
  • ACM CSCS 2022, Ingolstadt, Germany, Organization committee
  • IARA SECURWARE 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, Reviewer
  • DFRWS EU 2024, Zaragoza, Spain, PC member
  • DFRWS APAC 2024, Brisbane, Australia, Sub-reviewer
  • IARA SECURWARE 2024, Nice, France, Reviewer
  • DFRWS EU 2025, Brno, Czech Republic, PC member
  • DFRWS APAC 2025, Seoul, South Korea, Sub-reviewer
  • DFDS 2026, Linköping, Sweden, Reviewer
  • International Journal of Information Security 2025, Springer Nature, Reviewer
  • DFRWS EU 2026, Linköping, Sweden, PC member

Public speaker

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

Impressum

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