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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Rist T, Wendzel S, Masoodian M, Monigatti P, Andre E. Creating Awareness for Efficient Energy Use in Smart Homes. In: Gerhild Feuerstein and Walter Ritter, editors. Zusammenfassung der Beiträge zum Usability Day IX, Dornbirn, Austria. Pabst; 2011 May p. 162—168.     [File] 
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Ploetner J, Wendzel S. Linux. Das umfassende Handbuch . 4 ed. Galileo Press; 2011
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Wendzel S, Rist T, Masoodian M, André E. A Secure Interoperable Architecture for Building-Automation Applications. In: Proc. 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL). 2011      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S. Mikroprotokolle in verdeckten Kanälen. In: Beiträge zum Doktorandenkolleg Ruhr 2011. 2011
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Wendzel S, Ploetner J. Einstieg in Linux. Eine distributionsunabhängige Einführung . 4 ed. Galileo Press; 2010
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Ploetner J, Wendzel S. Linux. Das umfassende Handbuch . 3 ed. Galileo Press; 2009
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Wendzel S. Protocol channels as a new design alternative of covert channels. CoRR. 2008; abs/0809.19491      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Ploetner J. Einstieg in Linux. Eine distributionsunabhängige Einführung . 3 ed. Galileo Press; 2008
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Ploetner J, Wendzel S. Linux. Das umfassende Handbuch . 2 ed. Galileo Press; 2008     [File] 
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Ploetner J, Wendzel S. Praxisbuch Netzwerk-Sicherheit. VPN, WLAN, Intrusion Detection, Disaster Recovery, Kryptologie, für UNIX/Linux und Windows . 2 ed. Galileo Press; 2007     [File] 

Open Theses and Projects

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