Matti Schulze

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Michael’s information security group. My interests cover many aspects of the research on systems and their security, with a focus on Confidential Computing, Trusted Execution Environments, and Virtualization.
Furthermore, I am a member of FAU’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where I am primarily responsible for vulnerability management at our university.

Open Theses (Bachelor / Master) and Projects

If you are enrolled as a computer science student at FAU, I can directly supervise your thesis. You can find a list of open thesis at our lab in UnivIS. Note that not all available open thesis options may be publicly advertised. You can always write a kind email containing some information about you to matti.schulze@fau.de, and we’ll chat about available options.  

Additionally, if you are interested in my topics, it may be worth checking out thesis options from my colleagues Jonas Röckl and Christian Lindenmeier.

Teaching

• Hacker Project [WiSe 24/25], with Christian Lindenmeier, Maximilian Eichhorn, Ella Savchenko, Jonas Röckl, and Julian Geus
• Angewandte Informationssicherheit [SoSe24] Guest Lecture on Vulnerability Management
• Web Security Übung [SoSe 24], with Julian Geus 
• Hacker Project [WiSe 23/24], with Christian Lindenmeier, Davide Bove, Ralph Palutke, Jonas Röckl, and Julian Geus
• Angewandte Informationssicherheit [SoSe23] Guest Lecture on Vulnerability Management
• Web Security Übung [SoSe 23], with Julian Geus

Publications

• Schulze M., Lindenmeier C.,Röckl J., & Freiling F. (2024).
  IlluminaTEE: Effective Man-At-The-End Attacks from within ARM TrustZone
  Checkmate@CCS 2024 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14 – October 18, 2024)
  In: Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Research on offensive and defensive techniques in the context of Man At The End (MATE) attacks
  DOI: 10.1145/3689934.3690838
• Lindenmeier C., Schulze M., Röckl J., Busch M.:
  SyncEmu: Enabling Dynamic Analysis of Stateful Trusted Applications
  9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
  In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
  DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00024
• Röckl J., Lindenmeier C., Schulze M., Müller T.:
  Conditional Network Availability: Enhancing Connectivity Guarantees for TEE-Based Services
  9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
  In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
  DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00030
• Schulze M., Lindenmeier C., Röckl J.:
  BarriCCAde: Isolating Closed-Source Drivers with ARM CCA
  9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
  In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
  DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00033
• Latzo T., Schulze M., & Freiling F. (2021).
  Leveraging Intel DCI for Memory Forensics.
  Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS US) 2021 (Virtual, 12. July 2021 – 15. July 2021)
  In: Proceedings of the Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS US) 2021
  Open Access: https://dfrws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021_USA_paper-leveraging_intel_dci_for_memory_forensics.pdf

Email Encryption, PGP

The following public key can be used to encrypt confidential emails that are sent to me.
More information on PGP can be found here. Information in German can be found here.