Matteo Maffei

Congrats to my co-lecturers @mautem.bsky.social, @matteomaffei.bsky.social, @wert310.bsky.social, Pedro Bernardo, @beerphilipp.bsky.social, Simon Jeanteur and our amazing tutors: this wouldn't be possible without you.

And thanks to all students for the great feedback and participation 🙏

Safety first für Cybersecurity Für den Informatiker Matteo Maffei steht Sicherheit an erster Stelle. Mit seinem Team entwickelt er an der Technischen Universität Wien innovative Lösungen, die sowohl User:innen und ihre Privatsphäre...

Der Informatiker Matteo Maffei entwickelt mit seinem Team an der @tuwien.at innovative #cybersecurity Lösungen wie etwa zum Schutz der Privatsphäre und vor Hackerangriffen.
@matteomaffei.bsky.social #scilog 🖥️

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Enhancing web security for everyday users New methods for identifying potential vulnerabilities in web browsers could make the digital world more resilient in the face of mounting...

Kudos to the @erc.europa.eu and Cordia team for featuring this nice summary of my Browsec Consolidator grant. What a journey! And still great research in web security on the horizon 😀 cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

Was ich zynisch und typisch “Boomer” finde, ist, die Zukunft nächster Generationen aus persönlichen Interessen zu verpfänden 🤷🏻 Davon abgesehen können unterschiedliche Meinungen die Debatte nur bereichern und unseren Unis helfen, besser zu werden.

Hence the 80% of temporary contracts for teaching scientific personnel is fine, since PhD and postdocs teach (it is part of their qualification) and 1:4 is a fine ratio with profs, the 40% with semester contracts is a different story…

Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - BMBF Das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG) enthält spezielle Regelungen für Befristungen im Wissenschaftsbereich. Damit trägt es den Besonderheiten der wissenschaftlichen Arbeitswelt Rechnung.

„in der Phase der Qualifizierung junger WissenschaftlerInnen sind befristete Arbeitsverhältnisse sinnvoll und notwendig. Ohne eine durch Befristungen begünstigte Rotation wäre der Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeiten für nachrückende Generationen erheblich erschwert.“ www.bmbf.de/DE/Forschung...

and the contribution of everyone as well as different ideas are necessary to make it even better, but I think that overall Austria is moving in the right direction.

The Uni model is very similar in Germany and Switzerland. I think Austrian unis (or at least TU Wien) are striving to find the sweet spot between young career perspectives, education of young researchers, and excellence...the process is certainly not perfect and can be improved,

the number of researcher positions is fixed and for each position made permanent, we remove one or two Ph.D. positions from the budget, i.e., there will not be enough positions for excellent students who want to do a Ph.D. or a postdoc, and education is a duty of universities.

We hired several austrian tenure-track profs who spent periods abroad, they brought back a different mentality, new research fields, and strong networking. If we want that Austria is a top country for research and education, this is the right model. Also, one cannot make all contracts permanent:

"Prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse treiben hoch ausgebildete Universitätsangestellte in die Privatwirtschaft und ins Ausland": it is actually ok! The economy needs highly qualified researchers and it is good that researchers go abroad and get international experience, afterwards they can come back.

Top third-party funding conditions, internationally leading research groups in many fields, appealing career model with promotion path from tenure track assistant prof to full prof (at least at TU Wien). We hire the best and Mittelbau can apply for such professorships, this is how top unis work.

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil dazu beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien! #IchForscheGernInWien

Wir sollten uns angewöhnen, die EU-Kommissionspräsidentin als "Leader of the Free World" zu bezeichnen, wie man das früher in Amerika mit dem US-Präsidenten gemacht hat.

Grateful to @iacrcrypto.bsky.social for acting quickly to address serious concerns from the community.

Excited to highlight Markus Scherer's talk at #Wasm Research Days. A collaborative masterpiece with J.F.Blaabjerg (Aarhus University) and A. Sjösten, @msolitro.bsky.social, @matteomaffei.bsky.social sky.social from @tuwien.at. Discover how Wappler pioneers in this domain youtu.be/KwI55q4GBxo?...

TU Wien is hiring for an assistant professor (tenure-track) in NLP.

This is a joint position with the Complexity Science Hub.

This is a particularly great opportunity if you also like network science and/or complex systems and/or computational social science.

jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248962

Great to have Jonathan Katz from Google as part of our @cysecwien.bsky.social @tuwien.at distinguished lecture series. Thanks for the visit and the fruitful research collaborations we kicked off this week!

I am personally cutting most subscriptions with US companies (Amazon Prime etc) and trying to use and buy only EU products and services.

Today we kicked off our master course on Formal Methods for Security and Privacy @cysecwien.bsky.social . Welcome to all students, looking forward to the new projects and lectures that have been freshly prepared with love by our group!

Stefan Gast, Daniel Gruss, and Jonas Juffinger presenting their research at NDSS 2025

Proud moment at #NDSS 2025! SPyCoDe researchers showcased 4 groundbreaking papers. Kudos to @matteomaffei.bsky.social, Z. Avarikioti, S. Gast, @gruss.cc, @notimaginary.bsky.social, @hannesweissteiner.xyz, S. Mangard, and co-authors. For more details and links, visit spycode.at/events/#2025...

Alba: The Dawn of Scalable Bridges for Blockchains - NDSS Symposium

Giulia Scaffino from @cysecwien.bsky.social on stage at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) presenting Alba, our framework for interoperability across Layer-2 solutions. If you are interested, take a look at our paper! www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/a...

🚀 Exciting news! Jonathan Katz from #Google is giving a lecture at #TUW!

📢 "Round-Optimal Fully Secure Distributed Key Generation"
📅 March 4 | Attend in person or online

Don’t miss this chance to learn from a cryptography expert! 🔐

📌 Details: cysec.wien/news/2025-03...

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Engaging discussions at the AI & Security Competence Forum! Experts M. Maffei ‪@matteomaffei.bsky.social‬, T. Stubbings #CTS, A. Janda #KSÖ, R. Schneider #DeutscheTelekom, and J. Schlaghuber #Siemens reached a strong consensus on the necessity of intensifying efforts. #CyberSicherheit #CyberSecurity

So nice to bring dogs to work 🥰 @cysecwien.bsky.social

Gadgets have arrived 🤩 @cysecwien.bsky.social

Inspiring! Nice speech Andreas 😉

Last week we had a very inspiring retreat in Semmering for our
@fwf-at.bsky.social -funded @spycode.bsky.social
special research program. Lots of exciting collaborations at the horizon!

Here is the news cysec.wien/news/2024-12...

Congratulations to @erkantairi.bsky.social , former PhD student in the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien, on his FWF Schrödinger fellowship, which will allow him to spend 2 years at UC Berkeley and then 1 year at IST Austria. I am very proud of you and all the best for the future!