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. Before joining Ulm University, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT), Hochschule Worms, and a 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: Responsible for the 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
  • since 2026: External member RARP (Rechenzentrumsallianz Rheinland-Pfalz)

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

Publikationen

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Hartmann L, Wendzel S. How Feasible are Steganographic and Stealth Attacks on TIA Project Meta-data of ICS: A Case Study with Real-world Data. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. Hunting Shadows: Towards Packet Runtime-based Detection Of Computational Intensive Reversible Covert Channels. In: Proc. 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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Caviglione L, Mileva A, Wendzel S. Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2020 (EICC 2020). ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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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

Offene Abschlussarbeiten und Projekte

4.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
3.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024