About our Research Group

We conduct fundamental and applied research to enhance prevention, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime, cyber-enabled fraud, and high technology crime.

We also contribute to advisory services, forensic casework, and expert witness in cooperation with partners from national, European and international law enforcement agencies (LEA), academia and the private sector.

Topics

• Research in the area of large-scale investigations; automatic search through terabytes of electronic data storage within closed systems and the Internet,
• Research and development for the rapid acquisition, correlation and analysis of Internet-related evidence,
• Technologies for cross-media search and data integration to access diverse sources of information, in particular data enrichment from Internet sources,
• Algorithms for the analysis of encrypted evidence and cryptographic credentials,
• Design of advanced computing technologies to achieve more objective evidence analysis and final decision making by implementing computational intelligence.
• Development of methods and tools for digital penetrator attribution and profiling, visualization of serious criminal relationships and associations, and geographical mapping of digital and physical evidence.

Mission statement

• Forensic Teaching Environment

  • Teaching on Bachelor, Master, and PhD Level

• Postgraduate Education and Training
• Curiosity-driven, fundamental research and publications 
• Applied Research and Development on behalf of Industrial and Governmental Entities
• Forensic Casework, Expert Witnesses, and Advisory Services in Cooperation with Partners
• Networking and Community-building Activities, e.g., Workshops, Tutorials, Competitions,…

Objective

• Study and development of advanced computational methods to
  • Assist in basic and applied forensic research, e.g. to establish or prove the scientific basis of a particular forensic investigative procedure,
  • Support the forensic examiner in their daily casework.
• Modern crime investigation, prosecution and prevention shall profit from the joint intelligence of humans and machines.