Institute of Information Resource Management

Steffen Wendzel is the Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (IRM / OMI) and Director of the kiz (university library and computing center). He received his habilitation (2020) and PhD (Dr. rer. nat., 2013) from the University of Hagen, Germany. Earlier, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Hagen, Germany, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT) at Hochschule Worms, and PostDoc at the Dep. Cyber Security, Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn.

Current Roles:

  • since 2024: Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (OMI)
  • since 2024: Director of the Library and Computing Center (kiz), Ulm University
  • since 2026: Scientific Spokesperson of BelWü
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Scientific Computing Center Directors Baden-Württemberg (ALWR)
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Library Directors Baden-Württemberg (AG BibDir)
  • since 2025: Project lead: State-level High-performance Computing Project bwHPC-S5 (jointly with Prof. M. Frank, KIT)
  • since 2025: Member: consultative group for bwInfoSec
  • since 2024: Member: Senatsausschuss Lehre, Universität Ulm
  • since 2024: Member: Lenkungsausschuss des Projekts Campusportal zur Einführung von HISinOne, Ulm University
  • since 2025: DFN Representative for Ulm University
  • since 2025: ZKI Representative for Ulm University

More information: https://www.wendzel.de/

Publications

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Zillien S, Wendzel S. Reconnection-Based Covert Channels in Wireless Networks. In: Jøsang, Audun and Futcher, Lynn and Hagen, Janne, editors. ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2021). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2021 p. 118—133.      [DOI]      [File] 
103.
Hartmann L, Zillien S, Wendzel S. Reset- and Reconnection-based Covert Channels in CoAP. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
102.
Mileva A, Caviglione L, Velinov A, Wendzel S, Dimitrova V. Risks and Opportunities for Information Hiding in DICOM Standard. In: Proc. 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
101.
Aehle M, Alme J, Barnaföldi GG, Borshchov V, Bodova T, Brink A, Eikeland V, Garth C, Gauger NR, Genov G, Grøttvik O, Feofilov G, Helstrup H, Igolkin S, Keidel R, Kobdaj C, Kortus T, Leonhardt V, Mehendale S, Mulawade RN, Odland OH, Papp G, Peitzmann T, Pettersen HES, Piersimoni P, Protsenko M, Rehman AU, Röhrich D, Samnøy AT, Schilling A, Seco J, Songmoolnak A, Sølie JR, Tambave G, Tymchuk I, Ullaland K, Varga-Köfaragó M, Volz L, Wagner B, Wendzel S, Wiebel A, Xiao R, Yang S, Yokoyama H, Zillien S. The Bergen proton CT system. In: 12th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD 2021). IOP Publishing; 2021 p. C02051.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Checco A, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Information Security Methodology, Replication Studies and Information Security Education. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2020; 26(7):762—763.      [DOI]      [File] 
99.
Wendzel S, Lévy-Bencheton C, Caviglione L. Not all Areas are Equal: Analysis of Citations in Information Security Research. Scientometrics. 2020; 122(1):267—286.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Caviglione L, Mileva A, Wendzel S. Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2020 (EICC 2020). ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Checco A, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2020). ACM; 2020
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Hartmann L, Wendzel S. Anomaly Detection in ICS Based on Data-History Analysis. In: Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [File] 
95.
Keller J, Wendzel S. Covert Channels in One-Time Passwords Based on Hash Chains. In: Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [File] 

Open Theses and Projects

8.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
7.
Auslastungsanzeige für die Bibliothek [Bachelor]. 2026
6.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
5.
Mehrere Bachelorarbeitsthemen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem kiz . 2026
4.
Censorship Resistant Scientific Repository [Master]. 2025 Jul.     [File] 
3.
Erweiterung bestehender Tunneling-Software für den Einsatz in Experimentalumgebungen [Bachelor]. 2025
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024