Curriculum Vitae

Summary
A scientist who has spent five years improving the work of CSIRTs, specifically Hessen3C, via process automation in the threat intelligence cycle, has addressed this in fifteen publications. Additionally, he has gained leadership experience in programming projects, thesis supervision, and courses, as well as HR experience as a personnel board member of a 56-person association.

Experience

Project Manager / Post-Doctoral Researcher2025 - Present
Technical University of Darmstadt, Cryptoplexity

Manager role of the SFB CROSSING.

  • Preparation and management of the final reporting
  • Supporting the financial reporting
  • Event management and preparation
  • Supervision programming projects and supporting PhD candidates
Research Associate2020 - 2025
Technical University of Darmstadt, PEASEC

Process automation for CSIRTs using Web Mining and Natural Language Processing

  • Process automation for CSIRTs resulting in 15 publications
  • Implementation of various process optimizations in HR, System Administration, and Project Reporting
  • Supervision of 10 Master's theses, 2 Bachelor's theses, and 10 programming projects, as well as leading the programming course
  • Specific work in CYWARN (CSIRT process improvement), SecUrban (ATHENE-Center, secure smart cities), and LOEWE center emergenCity (resilient critical infrastructures)
Head of Human Resources (Volunteering)2022 - 2024
uniKITA Darmstadt e.V.

Managing HR for a 56-person childcare association

  • Managing 31 permanent and 25 temporary employees with a team of 3 HR-employees
  • Implementation of two central HR roles to strengthen communication with employees
  • Improvement of employee satisfaction and reducing attrition to 6%
Scientific Assistant2017 - 2018
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology

Implementation of Privacy-Enhancing-Technologies based on blockchain technologies with Hyperledger and Golang

Student Assistant & Tutoring2014 - 2017
Technical University of Darmstadt
  • Tutoring C++ and C programming course
  • Training in the areas of mentoring, team building, and presentations
  • System Administration
  • Mentoring of freshmen

Education

Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.)2020 - 2025
Technical University of Darmstadt

Thesis: Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence - Automating the Intelligence Cycle based on Open Sources.

M.Sc. IT Security2016 - 2019
Technical University of Darmstadt

Thesis: BlockED: A Blockchain-based Exploit Depletion System for Inter-State Relationships.

B.Sc. Computer Science2012 - 2016
Technical University of Darmstadt

Thesis: Host Proof Calendar Access and Synchronization.

Skills

Background

NLP, LLM, RAG, IR, Data Analysis & Mining, Algorithms and Data Structures, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, HPC, Program testing and analysis

Programming

Python (fluent), Rust, C/C++, Golang, Nix, Java, HTML, CSS, Haskell

DevOps & Tools

SQLite, Docker/Podman, Chroma, HPC/slurm, GitLab CI/CD, Git, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, NixOS

Stack & Frameworks

Huggingface, LangChain, LangGraph, Scrapy, Selenium, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, Django

Languages

German (mother tongue), English (fluent in speaking and writing)

Publications

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Bandit on the Hunt: Dynamic Crawling for Cyber Threat Intelligence
Kuehn, Philipp; Nadermahmoodi, Dilara; Bayer, Markus; Reuter, Christian
arXiv , 2025
Informatik fĂĽr den Frieden: Perspektive von PEASEC zu 40 Jahren FIfF
Reuter, Christian; Franken, Jonas; Reinhold, Thomas; Kuehn, Philipp; Kaufhold, Marc-André; Riebe, Thea; Hartwig, Katrin; Biselli, Tom; Schmid, Stefka; Guntrum, Laura; Haesler, Steffen
FIfF-Kommunikation , 2024
CySecBERT: A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain
Bayer, Markus; Kuehn, Philipp; Shanehsaz, Ramin; Reuter, Christian
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security , 2024