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News

September 2025: Carsten Schürmann attended Furic 2025 as an invited panalist sharing his thoughts on data protection regulations and how it affects the work of election management bodies.

September 2025: Congratulations to Raha Asadi. She joined CISAT as a PhD student working with Oksana Kulyk. Signe Louise Yndigegn is a co-supervisor.

August 2025: All ITU students interested in cybersecurity are invited to the CISAT thesis market in the 4C corridor on 28/09/25, 15:00.

July 2025: Paper "I tell him everything that I do”: An investigation of privacy and safety implications of AI companion usage” by Anine Henriksen, Raha Asadi, Oksana Kulyk, Peter Mayer and Anne Gerdes has been accepted at the EuroUSEC.

Paper "Universally Composable Interactive and Ordered Multi-Signatures" by Carsten Baum, Bernardo David, Elena Pagnin, Akira Takahashi has been accepted to PKC 2025.

Paper "pod: An Optimal-Latency, Censorship-Free, and Accountable Generalized Consensus Layer" by Orestis Alpos, Bernardo David, Jakov Mitrovski, Odysseas Sofikitis, and Dionysis Zindros has been accepted to DISC 2025.

Paper "Rumors MPC: GOD for Dynamic Committees, Low Communication via Constant-Round Chat" by Bernardo David, Arup Mondal, Rahul Satish has been accepted to Asiacrypt 2025.

June 2025: Markus Krabbe Larsen and Carsten Schürmann win a distinguished paper award at the 38the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium on their work on Nominal SSProve.

June 2025: Congratulations to Alessandro Bruni, who was awarded two grants on Robust AI by NFC and DIREC.

Paper "Voting Under Pressure: Perceptions of Counter-Strategies in Internet Voting” by Christina Nissen, Tobias Hilt, Jurlind Budurushi, Melanie Volkamer, and Oksana Kulyk has been accepted at the E-Vote-ID conference.

Poster "The Password You Hope You Never Use: Use Cases for Duress Authentication” by Christina Nissen and Oksana Kulyk has been accepted at the CSCW conference.

May 2025: Congratulations to Marco Carbone, who was awarded a DFF grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark on probabilistic session types (PROBABILIST), 2025-2029.

April 2025: Carsten Schürmann was an invited panelist at an event about cyberwar. The event was hosted by IT University of Copenhagen and Dagbladet Information. See link.

March 2025: Carsten Schürmann represents Dansk Universiteter on the advisory board at Digitaliseringstyrelsen for the implementation of the Digital Identity Wallet (EU regulation eIDAS 2.0). Press Release

March 2025: Bernardo David hosts NordiCrypt Spring 2025 at ITU.

October 2024: Christina Frederikke Nissen wins a best paper award at EVote-ID for her paper on Tracking Code-based Verification-Design and Evaluation.

Courses Available to ITU students

ITU CISAT provides research-based multidisciplinary Bachelor's and Master's programs within information security in order to meet the need for cybersecurity experts. ITU CISAT students acquire competencies enabling them to make security decisions as suppliers and acquirers of software, to construct secure software, to assess security risks, to perform penetration testing, and more. Here are some of the recommended courses for our Master students.

AI Security

Cryptographic Computation and Blockchain

Cryptography

Data-Driven Security

Ethical Hacking

Language-Based Security

Probabilistic Programming

Program Verification

Team

Steering Committee

Carsten Schürmann

Professor

Head of ITU CISAT

Morten Hjelholt

Professor

Head of Research at ITU

Faculty

Louise Barkhuus

Professor

Alessandro Bruni

Associate Professor

Bernardo David

Associate Professor

Christopher Gad

Associate Professor

Elda Paja

Associate Professor

Marco Carbone

Professor

Oksana Kulyk

Associate Professor

Raul Pardo

Associate Professor

Riko Jacob

Associate Professor

Rosario Giustolisi

Associate Professor

Willard Rafnsson

Associate Professor

PostDocs

Ricardo Jose Menezes Maia

PhD Student

PhD students

Christina Frederikke Nissen

PhD Student

Maria Bendix Mikkelsen

PhD Student

Markus Krabbe Larsen

PhD Student

Rahul Bangalore Satish

PhD Student

Raha Asadi

PhD Student

Former colleagues

Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen, now assistant professor at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Maryam Sheikhi Garjan, now PostDoc at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Lorenzo Gentile – Graduated in April 2023, now at Consensys.

James Hsin-yu Chiang, now PostDoc at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Anders Konring, now at Espresso Systems.

Felix Engelman, now PostDoc at Ohio State University, U.S.A.

Ravi Kishore, now at BITS.

Esra Yeniaras, now at Københavns Erhversakademiet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ieva Daukantas, now at Novo Nordisk, Denmark.

Gopinaath Kannabiran.

Peter Schneider, now at Everllence, Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications

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CISAT Talks

Date Time Title Speaker Location
06-11-25 12:00 - 13:00 TBA Tobias Liebetrau, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 5A09
21-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 Anonymous Credentials from ECDSA Abhi Shelat, Google 2A08
20-10-25 13:00 - 14:00 Bouncy Castle and a Post-Quantum future API Changes, Protocol Issues, and Performance David Hook, Legion of the Bouncy Castle 3A08
26-09-25 12:30 - 13:00 Formalization of matching numbers with finmap and mathcomp-classical Takafumi Saikawa, Nagoya University, Japan 5A08
25-09-25 12:00 - 12:30 Formalizing Concentration Inequalities in Rocq: Infrastructure and Automation Alessandro Bruni, ITU 5A09
11-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 HTTP flood attacks mitigation Karel Panchártek, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Czech Republic 5A09
26-08-25 15:00 - 16:00 Static Analysis for Android GDPR Compliance Assurance Mugdha Khedkar 3A08
23-06-25 15:00 - 16:00 Security Proofs via Approximate Relational Reasoning for Higher-Order Probabilistic Programs Philip Haselwater, Aarhus University 5A09
09-03-25 12:15 - 13:00 Reverse engineering MitID Lukas Hundt Petersen 4A56
03-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 No Silver Bullet: Towards Demonstrating Secure Software Development for Danish Small and Medium Enterprises in a Business-to-Business Model Raha Asaid, IT University of Copenhagen 5A09

Contact Carsten Schürmann to propose a talk.

About

The Center for Information Security and Trust (CISAT) is the the focal point for research and education in cybersecurity at the IT University of Copenhagen created to protect critical infrastructure sectors across Europe.

Vision Statement

To be a leading center of excellence in cybersecurity and trust research, supporting defense and security communities in shaping resilient, reliable, and ethically grounded digital infrastructures for future missions.

Mission Statement

To advance research and education in cybersecurity, resilience, and trust, enabling defense to safeguard critical infrastructure and mitigate digital threats.

Construction

Reliability, security by design, language-based security, continuous deployment

Verification

Adversary-, capability- and risk-modeling, risk mitigation, cyber attack detection, theorem proving, model checking

Organizations

Organizational effects, including trustability, governance, and legislation

Society

Human perceptions of trust, ethics and privacy, including psychological, philosophical and cognitive aspects

Contact

Carsten Schürmann

Professor, Head of ITU CISAT

(+45) 26 39 36 06
carsten@itu.dk

Jari Kickbusch

Research Communicator

(+45) 22 48 28 27
jark@itu.dk

ITU CISAT is part of the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), located at Rued Langgaards Vej 7, DK-2300