Started my PhD (01/08/2025) at the Institute of Information Security (ISEC, former IAIK) in the Secure Systems group and under the supervision of Stefan Mangard.

Collaboratively developed LosTemplates: preconfigured challenge baselines for CTFs. Supports instanced web, instanced qemu+ssh, jails, sagemath, etc. All done with coreutils, containers, shells and makefiles. Handles most of the tedious CTF infrastructure tasks.

Defended my Master’s Thesis and finished the degree. Contents are under embargo, will be published after.

Played GoogleCTF2025 (only a bit) and solved “bpfbox” along a teammate.

Created some small CTFTime wrapper scripts to list CTFs via the CLI and calculate rating points.

Played with KuK Hofhackerei and got 6th place, qualifying for DEFCON CTF 2025.

Attended an OT Workshop organized by Siemens. Topics: Profinet, OT Pentesting, TIA Portal

Played with LosFuzzys and placed 2nd on the academic bracket.

Attended the conferences.

Elected team captain of the CTF Team LosFuzzys, alongide Xer0.

Created a script to upgrade OpenWRT routers via cron