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dr. C. Kolb (Christina)

Assistant Professor

About Me

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

Mathematics
# Attack
# Currency
# Fault Tree
# Qualitative Analysis
# Semantic Analysis
Engineering & Materials Science
# Security Of Data
# Semantics
# Syntactics

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Research

**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

Recent
Götte, T. , Kolb, C., Scheideler, C., & Werthmann, J. (2023). Beep-and-Sleep: Message and Energy Efficient Set Cover. Theoretical computer science, 950, Article 113756. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2023.113756
Quamara, M. , Kolb, C., & Hamid, B. (2023). Analyzing Origins of Safety and Security Interactions Using Feared Events Trees and Multi-level Model. In J. Guiochet, S. Tonetta, E. Schoitsch, M. Roy, & F. Bitsch (Eds.), 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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40953-0_15
Kolb, C. (2022). Competitive routing in hybrid communication networks and message efficient SetCover in Ad Hoc networks. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation external, University of Paderborn]. University of Paderborn.
Götte, T. , Kolb, C., Scheideler, C., & Werthmann, J. (2021). Beep-And-Sleep: Message and Energy Efficient Set Cover. ArXiv.org.
Budde, C. E. , Kolb, C. , & Stoelinga, M. (2021). Attack Trees vs. Fault Trees: Two Sides of the Same Coin from Different Currencies. In A. Abate, & A. Marin (Eds.), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 18th International Conference, QEST 2021, Proceedings (pp. 457-467). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12846). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85172-9_24
Stoelinga, M. I. A. , Kolb, C. , Nicoletti, S. M. , Budde, C. E., & Hahn, E. M. (2021). The Marriage Between Safety and Cybersecurity: Still Practicing. In A. Laarman, & A. Sokolova (Eds.), 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84629-9_1
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Are you interested in writing a bachelor/ master thesis in cybersecurity? Contact me!

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Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3202
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn  3202
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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