PhD and PostDoc Researchers

Dr.-Ing. Holger Schmidt

Curriculum Vitae:

 Employment

• April 2011 - ongoing: Senior researcher (PostDoc position) in EU Project
  NESSoS (Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems)
  for the University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of engineering, Department of computer science, Workgroup software engineering
• October 2007 - ongoing: Free-lance consultant in the field of engineering for safe and secure systems
  
  
• April 2010 - March 2011: Scientific Employee (PostDoc position) at the Technical University of Dortmund,
  Department of computer science, Workgroup software engineering
• September 2004 - March 2010: Scientific Employee at the University Duisburg-Essen,
  Faculty of engineering, Department of computer science, Workgroup software engineering
• July 2004 - August 2004: Scientific Employee at the University of Münster, Department of computer science

Degrees

• February 2010: PhD in computer science, supervised by Prof. Dr. Maritta Heisel at the University Duisburg-Essen.
  Thesis on pattern- and component-based development of secure software.
• June 2004: Diploma in mathematics with minor subject computer science at the University of Münster.

Fields of Research:

Information about my PhD thesis "A Pattern- and Component-Based Method to Develop Secure Software",
which recently has been shortlisted for the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) dissertation prize.

Security Engineering Process using Patterns (SEPP)

Fields of activity

• Pattern-based software development
• Development methods und processes for secure software systems
• Formal methods for the development of secure software systems
• Security (and other quality characteristics) requirements engineering
• Software architectures and component technology in the field of security engineering
• Software evolution

Projects:

• Project Development of a Bluetooth remote display system (SS 2005; UDE)

• Project Development of a Secure Password-Manager (WS 2009 / 2010; UDE)

• Project Evolving the Open-Source Software Doxygen (v1.4.6) (WS 2006 / 2007; UDE)

• Project Programming a c't-bot (SS 2007; UDE)

• Project Smartcard - Development of a SmartCard-based Access Control System (WS 2008 / 2009; UDE)

• Project SWE4me - Softwareentwicklung für mobile Endgeräte (SS 2007; UDE)

Courses:

• Exercises for Datenstrukturen und Algorithmen
  (SS 2008; UDE)
• Exercises for Entwicklung sicherer Software
  (SS 2007, SS 2008, SS 2009; UDE)
• Exercises for Formale Spezifikation von Softwaresystemen
  (WS 2004 / 2005, 2005 / 2006, 2006 / 2007, 2007 / 2008, 2008 / 2009, 2009 / 2010; UDE)
• Exercises for Fundamentals of Computer Engineering 2
  (SS 2005, SS 2006, SS 2008; UDE)
• Exercises for Fundamentals of Software Engineering 2
  (WS 2004 / 2005, 2005 / 2006, 2006 / 2007, 2007 / 2008; UDE)
• Exercises for Fundamentals of Computer Engineering 2
  (SS 2006; UDE)
• Exercises for Softwaretechnik
  (WS 2008 / 2009; UDE)