PhD Students

Highlighted Positions

• The group of Doreen Riepel is looking for PhD candidates to contribute to research in the area of public-key cryptography and provable security. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Mridula Singh is looking for PhD candidates with a strong research interest in Cyber-Physical Security. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Ali Abbasi is inviting applications for PhD positions in the area of hypervisor/firmware security/fuzzing. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Dániel Marx is offering PhD positions related to algorithms and complexity. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Michael Backes is offering PhD positions to those interested in Trustworthy AI, Trustworthy Information Processing and AI Security.
• The group of Mario Fritz is looking for PhD candidates with research interests in Trustworthy AI and AI Security.
• The SprintML group of Franziska Boenisch and Adam Dziedzic is offering PhD positions in private, secure and trustworthy machine learning. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Maximilian Golla is offering a PhD position for those interested in Usable Privacy and Security. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Aurore Fass is offering a PhD position for those with research interests in Web Security & Privacy. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Christian Rossow is looking for a PhD candidate with interest in systems and network security.
• The group of Sebastian Stich is looking for a PhD candidate with a strong research interest in the analysis and development of optimization strategies for training machine learning models.
• The group of Andreas Zeller is looking for PhD candidates with research interests in program analysis, software testing and automated debugging. Click here to check out the job post.
• The group of Xiao Zhang is looking for multiple PhD students who are interested in trustworthy machine learning research.
• The group of Wouter Lueks is looking for PhD candidates with a strong research interest in design and analysis of privacy-friendly-systems. Click here to check out the job post.

Your application

Qualified candidates who wish to pursue a doctoral degree in a research area covered by CISPA faculty may apply at any time. We will accept applications throughout the year for exceptionally strong candidates. Admitted applicants will have an opportunity to visit the center and its partner institutions and interact with faculty and students before making their decision. Admitted students are advised by CISPA faculty. All doctoral researchers at CISPA will be a member of a graduate program at our partnering degree-granting universities. For example, PhD Students in Saarbrücken are part of the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science at Saarland University, with whom we have a long-standing close collaboration.

CISPA is committed to increasing the representation of women, minorities, and individuals with disability in Computer Science. In accordance with the Equal Opportunity Plan, CISPA aims at increasing the number of women in Computer Science, and explicitly encourages women to apply. Applications of severely disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be given priority. In general, we welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

About CISPA

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is a German national Science Institution within the Helmholtz Association and provides a unique work environment that offers the advantage of a university department and a research laboratory alike. CISPA has the mission to rethink the digitized world of the future from the ground on up an make it safer through innovative cutting-edge research. CISPA is committed to the highest international academic standards. We offer a world-class research environment that grants extensive resources to a wide range of researchers and constitutes an attractive destination for the best talents and scientists from all countries.

CISPA is located in Saarbrücken, in the tri-border area of Germany, France and Luxembourg. The CISPA campus is located close to Saarland University, which is known for its excellence in Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

CISPA provides a highly international and diverse working environment, currently hosting researchers of 40 nationalities.

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