In cooperation with KASTEL Security Research Labs, the Graduate School is organizing the KASTEL Distinguished Lecture Series in Cyber Security. Three times a year, we invite outstanding national and international speakers who provide insight into their cutting-edge research.

The topics covered in the talks will be manifold, spanning the breadth of all disciplines and research domains involved in cyber security research at KIT. Additionally, the Lecture Series is designed to

appeal to the interests of a diverse audience,
advocate for interdisciplinary research, and
strike a balance between academic and industry perspectives.

2026

• Alvaro A. Cardenas
  Upcoming: Friday, April 17th, 2026
• Kenneth Paterson
  Upcoming: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026

2025

• Konrad Rieck
  Attacks on Machine Learning Backends
• Stefan Katzenbeisser
  Securing the Critical Transportation Infrastructure - Challenges and Solutions
• Gianluca Stringhini
  Improving the Moderation of False Information and Influence Campaigns on Social Media (no video available)
• Andreas Zeller
  Personalized Fuzzing (no video available)

2023

• Martin Kleppmann
  Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Software (video)
• Dennis Hofheinz
  A Personal Perspective on Cryptography (video)

2022

• Orla Lynskey
  "Fake It 'Til You Make It?" The Legal Implications of Synthetic Data (video)
• Lorenzo Cavallaro
  Transcending Transcend: Revisiting Malware Classification in the Presence of Concept Drift (video)
• Angela Sasse
  Behavioural Science Meets Security: Why a Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing (video)

2021

• Christopher Kruegel
  Finding Vulnerabilities in Embedded Software (video)
• Johannes Buchmann
  Sustainable Cybersecurity and Privacy (video)