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Thorsten Strufe is professor of Peer-to-Peer Networks at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research interests lie in the areas of decentralized distributed systems (P2P, opportunistic networks) and security, with an emphasis on network analysis and the construction of resilient systems. Recently, he has focused on studying privacy and security in online social networks and possibilities to provide social networking services through P2P technologies.

Previously, he took a post as senior researcher at  EURECOM, where he was working with  Refik Molva on security with a special focus on online social networks and did a post doc at Technische Universität Ilmenau, working on resilient networking technologies.

 He received the PhD degree from Technische Universitat Ilmenau in 2007, which was advised by  Günter Schäfer and  Dietrich Reschke, and was awarded with the ''FFK Preis fuer die beste theoretisch orientierte Dissertation'' (FFK price for the best theory oriented dissertation). His thesis deals with the construction of network-efficient overlay topologies for live multimedia streaming, and means to making them especially resilient towards both the failure of nodes and DoS attacks.

Damiano Carra, Pietro Michiardi, Hani Salah, and Thorsten Strufe. On the impact of incentives in aMule. Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2013

Michael Rossberg, Günter Schäfer, and Thorsten Strufe. Distributed Automatic Configuration of Complex IPsec-Infrastructures. In Journal of Network and Systems Management Vol. 18, 2010 [ online]

Michael Brinkmeier, Guenter Schaefer, and Thorsten Strufe. Optimally DoS resistant P2P Topologies for Live Multimedia Streaming. Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009. [online]

Leyla Bilge, Thorsten Strufe, Davide Balzarotti, and Engin Kirda. All Your Contacts Are Belong to Us: Automated Identity Theft Attacks on Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference, 2009. [ online]

L. A. Cutillo, R. Molva, and T. Strufe. Safebook: A privacy-preserving online social network leveraging on real-life trust. In: Communication Magazine, IEEE, Volume 47, Issue 12, December, 2009 [online]

L. A. Cutillo, R. Molva, and T. Strufe. Safebook: Feasibility of transitive cooperation for privacy on a decentralized social network. In World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2009. [ online]

Thorsten Strufe: A Peer-to-Peer-based Approach for the Transmission of Live Multimedia Streams (German: “Ein Peer-to-Peer-basierter Ansatz für die Live-Übertragung multimedialer Daten”). PhD thesis, TU Ilmenau, 2007 [online]

 Full list of publications.

Towards "Dark" Social Networking Services, University of Berkeley/ICSI, USA, 27. 03. 2013

Smart Sensor Network for Traffic Pollution Monitoring, Ministry for Transport -- Transport Development and Strategy Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam, 01. 03. 2013

What technological support for privacy do we need or need to improve?, Panelist at  Google Faculty Summit, Zürich, Switzerland, 12. 05. 2011

Future Directions of Social IPTV, International IT-Convergence Workshop for Future Networks and Services, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 26. 11. 2010

Wie verändert das Internet unsere Kommunikation und Lebenswelt?, Wissenschaftsforum des Deutschen Bundestages, Germany, 3. 11. 2010

Using Motifs to Optimize Structured P2P Substrates, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 11. 06. 2009

The Web site of the P2P group contains an extract of recent press coverage.

Selected participation in scientific venues since joining TU Darmstadt include...

• Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (Area Editor)
• Fast-Track Editor of several special issues "Security and Social Networking" in Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal

• ICC 2014 - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (co chair)
• INFOCOM 2014 (TPC)
• Euro-Par 2013 - Peer-to-Peer Computing (local chair)
• 5th Workshop Security and Social Networks -- SESOC 2013 (co chair)
• Dagstuhl 13062 - Decentralizing Systems for Privacy
• WWW 2013 (TPC)
• International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (21st ICCCN) 2012 (TPC co chair for Network Science and Social Networks)
• 4th Workshop on Security and Social Networks -- SESOC 2012 (co chair)
• International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (14th SSS) 2012 (TPC co chair for Social Networks)
• IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS) 2011 (TPC Vice-Chair)
• Workshop on Security and Social Networks -- SESOC 2011 (co chair)
• WoWMoM 2010 (demo chair)
• ITWDC 2010 (Social Network Security Track chair)
• SESOC 2010 (founding and organizing co chair)
• SOSOC 2008 (founding and organizing co chair)

Selected TPC memberships since 2009: WWW 2013, ICC 2013, WowMoM 2013, PRISMS 2013, Sigmetrics/PADE 2012, IEEE CPSCom 2012, Globecom 2012, ICC 2012, WoWMoM 2012, MobiSec 2012, HotPOST 2012, CompleNet 2012, SocInfo 2012, ICC 2011, Globecom 2011, WoWMoM 2011, ICC/IWSN 2011, ACC '11, WASA-NGI 2011, WiSARN 2011, ICC 2010, Globecom 2010, ITWDC 2010, IWTMP2P '10, SCS ANSS, ICCS, Necom 2010, WEIA '09, Globecom '09

Administrative services include...

Steering committee member (LG) of the SIG Communication and Distributed Systems KuVS (Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme) of the German Computer Science Foundation GI.

Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Liaison Professor of the German National Merit Foundation)