Theses

Our Empirical Information Security (EIS) group is part of the Institute of IT-Security (previously Institute of Practical Computer Science) and offers thesis supervision for (computer science) students of the Leibniz University Hannover.

We are interested in topics concerning IT security and privacy with an emphasis on human factors and empirical approaches. For more general (usable) security topics, you might want to contact Prof. Dürmuth’s Usable Security and Privacy group.

Feel free to take a look at our recent publications for an overview over our groups’s research direction.

Thesis Contact

We do not offer a pre-compiled list of thesis topics, but prefer to find an individual thesis topic based on your interest and skills.

As a foundation for discussing possible thesis topics matching your skills and interests, please include the following information in your email:

• Your experiences in IT security with relevance for a thesis such as attended lectures, previous (programming) projects, or private hobbies related to IT security.
  • Please do not include a transcript of your grades for privacy reasons.
• Your programming background (Programming languages you could comfortably use in your thesis).
• Your general idea of your thesis direction, e.g., more theory focused such as a review of existing literature, more study focused such as a tool comparison, or more programming focused such as a software implementation.

Contact: You can contact us via email at theses@sec.uni-hannover.de.

• The LUH requires us to only accept emails from your LUH address (stud.uni-hannover.de, see “Verkündungsblatt 10|2021”).
• We do accept theses (and emails) in English or German.

Please note: It might take some time to hear back from us, as we receive a large amount of thesis-related emails. If you really want to write a thesis with us, feel free to send a reminder email after a week or so to bump your request back to the top of our stack.