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 has parallelised quantum simulations across systems with more than 15 GPU nodes. He gave introductory courses in quantum computing and machine learning through the Fraunhofer Academy programme. He is co-founder of CitLight ASBL, a state-funded association promoting the social economy in Brussels, and KI-KL e.V. in Kaiserslautern, promoting AI use in non-profit and civil society organisations.

Tim received his B.Sc. in Socio-Informatics from RPTU Kaiserslautern with distinction (2022), with a thesis on developing a modular web service for encrypted file transfer. His M.Sc. thesis "Generating Threat Intelligence Live Feeds based on Honeypot Data Extraction and Processing" extended an open-source Threat Intelligence platform with machine learning and clustering algorithms, significantly improving the quality of threat feeds. His code was merged into the open-source project and he is now a core developer. His work spans web application security, ML model design, network technologies, and penetration testing.

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.