Education and programs
- bidt PostDoc, Personal funding by the Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt), 2025–present
- FAUnext career program, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, 2025–present
- PhD in the area of automotive digital forensics URL to Dissertation, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 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 response, 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 2021–2024
Memberships
- German Chapter of the ACM e.V, 2021–2024
- Chaos Computer Club, since 2020
- Neuland Ingolstadt e.V., since 2022
- Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), since 2023
- Digitalcourage e.V., since 2023
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
- 5th International VDI Conference - Cyber Security for Vehicles (2019), Challenges and Opportunities in Forensic Anlaysis for State-of-the-art and Future Vehicles
- CS3 Stockholm (CS3STHLM, 2019), Automotive DoIP and forensic analysis for automotive (Recording)
- Radar2 Conference (r2con, 2020), Where is my Ransom? Hunting for Ransomware Gangs using radare2 and Yara (Recording)
- IARA SECURWARE Tutorial (2021), Automotive Forensics - A Hans-on Showcase (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
- 37C3 (2023), Unlocking the Road Ahead: Automotive Digital Forensics (Recording)
Impressum
Name: Kevin Mayer
Contact: mail[at]kmyr[dot]de