Prof. Dr. Florian Tschorsch
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Head of the Group
NameProf. Dr. Florian Tschorsch
Chair of Privacy and Security
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Visiting address:
Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Room 3071 Nöthnitzer Straße 46
01187 Dresden
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By appointment
Florian Tschorsch is a Professor of Computer Science at TU Dresden, where he leads the Chair of Privacy and Security, conducting privacy and security research for a connected society. His work focuses on secure, privacy-preserving, and distributed systems and communication protocols, with a particular interest in design trade-offs induced by application-specific constraints. His work spans resilient and decentralized system architectures, privacy-preserving data analytics and telemetry, and secure and anonymous communication.
His contributions have been recognized with awards from GDD, the U.S. NRL, and the GI KuVS. He has been named a Pioneer by the World Frontiers Forum (WFF) and has served as a Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and as an Einstein Professor at the Einstein Center for Digital Future (ECDF). Since 2025, he has also been a Fellow at the Barkhausen Institut (BI).
| since 2023 | Full Professor for Privacy and Security, TU Dresden |
| 2021 to 2023 |
Visiting Professor at HU Berlin, Head of the Chair for Computer Engineering |
| 2017 to 2023 |
Professor at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) incl. board member (2017/18) |
| 2017 to 2023 |
Assistant Professor for Distributed Security Infrastructures, TU Berlin |
| 2016 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science, HU Berlin |
| 2011 to 2017 |
Research Associate at HHU Düsseldorf, U Würzburg, U Bonn, and HU Berlin |
| 2006 to 2010 |
BSc and MSc in Computer Science, HHU Düsseldorf (Minor: Media and Cultural Studies) |
News
More news and updates can also be found on my Mastodon profile, where I occasionally post and comment: chaos.social/@flotschorsch
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[Oct 2025]: I have joined the Barkhausen Institute as a Fellow, collaborating with the research group on Trustworthy Data Processing. |
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[Sep 2025]: I will serve as General Chair for the Informatik Festival 2026, which is the German Informatics Society's annual conference. |
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[Mar 2025]: Our work, The Last Hop Attack: Why Loop Cover Traffic over Fixed Cascades Threatens Anonymity, has been accepted for publication in PoPETS 2025.2. |
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[Dec 2024]: I will serve as General Chair for the 50th IEEE LCN Conference in 2025. |
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[Nov 2024]: I have become vice speaker of the German Informatics (GI) society's special interest group on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs). |
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[Sep 2024]: Our work, Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication, has been accepted at AFT 2024. |
| 🏆 | [Jul 2024]: I received the teaching award from the student council iFSR. |
Publications
A chronological overview of my scientific publications in Computer Science can be found at https://dblp.org/pid/82/9385