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I am assistant professor for cybersecurity and resilience at BMS-IEBIS. My research focuses on

1. Models to capture safety-security interactions (fault trees, attack trees, BDMP, account access graphs, feared event trees, multi-level model, autonomous driving)

2. AI and law (cybersecurity and cybersafety)

3. Social engineering (modeling and detecting phishing attacks)

**Attention Industry Partners and Academic Experts**
I am actively exploring collaborative opportunities within Operational Technology (#OT), focusing on #Autonomous Systems (including but not limited to self-driving vehicles). My research aims to investigate relationships between 1) #Cybersecurity and 2) Information Systems #Safety and Human #Safety.
Curious? I welcome you to contact me to explore potential collaborations!

Are you interested in writing a bachelor/ master thesis in cybersecurity? Contact me via email!

Expertise

Computer Science
- Communication Network
- Energy Efficient
- Algorithms
- ad-hoc network
- Overlay
- Security Survey
- wireless ad hoc network
- Approximation Ratio

Organisations

**Attention Industry Partners and Academic Experts**

I am actively exploring collaborative opportunities within Operational Technology (#OT), focusing on #Autonomous Systems (including but not limited to self-driving vehicles). My research aims to investigate relationships between 1) #Cybersecurity and 2) Information Systems #Safety and Human #Safety.

Curious? I welcome you to contact me to explore potential collaborations!

Graduation in Mathematics: Christina Kolb graduated in mathematics in 2013 at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. Besides maths, she studied some fields of Biology, mainly neurophysiology. As a student she was crazy about algebra, number theory, and cryptography.

Researcher in Cryptography: Not surprisingly, Christina started working in cryptography, i.e., anonymous reputation systems and anonymous credential systems until 2015, at Paderborn University in Germany.

PhD in distributed systems: To deepen her knowledge in theoretical computer science, Christina was a PhD in the research group of theory of distributed systems, also at Paderborn University and until May 2020. Her PhD thesis is about "Competitive Routing in Hybrid Communication Systems with Holes". She likes best of this topic that multiple disciplines are united. These are mainly safety, geometry, graph theory and distributed routing protocols. In addition, Christina worked on publish subscribe systems for the collaborative research center SFB 901 in Paderborn.

Postdoc life on safety-security interactions: In June 2020, she joint the CAESAR project at FMT group at the University of Twente as postdoc. The project's goal was to combine safety and security. Her main research there is on attack-defence-fault trees. In 2022, she spent her postdoc time in the research group on security and privacy at the University of Edinburgh in the UK.

Since July 2023, Christina Kolb is assistant professor for cybersecurity and resilience at The University of Twente at BMS-IEBIS.

Publications

2024

Where Do Safety and Security Mutually Reinforce? A Multi-level Model-Based Approach for a Consistent Interplay (2024)In Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2024 Workshops - DECSoS, SASSUR, TOASTS, and WAISE, Proceedings (pp. 316-328) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14989 LNCS). Springer. Quamara, M., Kolb, C. & Lohachab, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68738-9_25Security and Safety in Urban Environments: Evaluating Threats and Risks of Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery Robots (2024)In SAFECOMP 2024: 43rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (Accepted/In press). Kolb, C. & Xie, L.Security and Human-Safety by Applying Last-Mile Robots in Urban Environments (2024)In SENSEI 2024: International Workshop on Safety-Security Interaction (Accepted/In press). Kolb, C. & Xie, L.Tactics for Account Access Graphs (2024)In Computer Security – ESORICS 2023: 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 25–29, 2023, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 452-470). Arnaboldi, L., Aspinall, D., Kolb, C. & Randomirovic, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51479-1_23

2023

Model-Based Joint Analysis of Safety and Security: Survey and Identification of Gaps (2023)Computer science review, 50. Article 100597. Nicoletti, S. M., Peppelman, M., Kolb, C. & Stoelinga, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2023.100597Beep-and-Sleep: Message and Energy Efficient Set Cover (2023)Theoretical computer science, 950. Article 113756. Götte, T., Kolb, C., Scheideler, C. & Werthmann, J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2023.113756Analyzing Origins of Safety and Security Interactions Using Feared Events Trees and Multi-level Model (2023)In Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops: ASSURE, DECSoS, SASSUR, SENSEI, SRToITS, and WAISE Toulouse, France, September 19, 2023 Proceedings (pp. 176-187) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14184). Springer. Quamara, M., Kolb, C. & Hamid, B.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_15

2022

Competitive routing in hybrid communication networks and message efficient SetCover in Ad Hoc networks (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation external]. University of Paderborn. Kolb, C.

2021

Attack Trees vs. Fault Trees: Two Sides of the Same Coin from Different Currencies (2021)In Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 18th International Conference, QEST 2021, Proceedings (pp. 457-467) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12846). Springer. Budde, C. E., Kolb, C. & Stoelinga, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85172-9_24The Marriage Between Safety and Cybersecurity: Still Practicing (2021)In Model Checking Software. SPIN 2021: 27th International Symposium, SPIN 2021, Virtual Event, July 12, 2021, Proceedings (pp. 3-21) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12864). Springer. Stoelinga, M. I. A., Kolb, C., Nicoletti, S. M., Budde, C. E. & Hahn, E. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84629-9_1

Research profiles

Are you interested in writing a bachelor/ master thesis in cybersecurity? Contact me!

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Address

University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3202
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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