Our Team

Daniel received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Information Engineering from TU Kaiserslautern with distinction (2019) and has been a PhD researcher at DFKI under Prof. Hans Dieter Schotten since. His master's thesis implemented a deception-based active defence proxy for web application protection. In 2019 he participated in the Hessian-Israeli Partnership Accelerator for Cybersecurity (Fraunhofer SIT) and holds certifications as Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE) and Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP). Since 2021 he holds a teaching appointment for the security lecture "Information Security Assessment and Operations" at the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on deception-based active defence and service-based deception platforms.

Théo holds an M.Sc. in Physics Engineering (Nuclear Engineering & Medical Radiophysics, minor in Quantum Technologies) from the Free University of Brussels (2021). He has since worked as an associate researcher at Fraunhofer ITWM in the HPC Competence Centre, specialising in HPC-quantum integration and applied quantum algorithms. He gave introductory courses in quantum computing and machine learning through the Fraunhofer Academy programme. Deeply passionnate about alternative computing, infosec, democratic processes and social economy.

Tim holds an M.Sc. in Socioinformatics from RPTU Kaiserslautern, where his thesis explored generating Threat Intelligence from Honeypot data. He enhanced an open-source Threat Intelligence platform with machine learning and clustering algorithms, improving the quality of its feeds — work that was well received and led to him becoming a maintainer of the project. With over 15 years in IT — spanning roles from system administration to software development — he brings a broad, well-rounded perspective to his work. These days, his focus is on web applications, network technologies, and virtualisation, with a soft spot for all things open source.

Kunal completed his M.Sc. in Computer Science (Distributed and Networked Systems) at RPTU Kaiserslautern, with a guest semester in Cybersecurity at CISPA — Helmholtz Centre for Information Security, Saarland University (2024). During his thesis he contributed to numerous CVE disclosures and participated in closed bug bounty programmes. He holds certifications including eWPT, eWPTx, CompTIA PenTest+, and CompTIA CySA+. Since April 2023 he assisted in the "Information Security Assessment and Operations" lecture. From December 2024 he continues his IT security research at DFKI, with a focus on defensive and deception approaches for application security.