Prof. Dr. Matteo Große-Kampmann

My name is Matteo Große-Kampmann. I am a professor of Distributed Systems at the Kamp-Lintfort campus and currently serve as vice dean of the Faculty of Communication and Environment. I earned my Ph.D. in systems security from Ruhr University Bochum.

My work lies at the intersection of technical IT security research and the question of how to reliably measure the security and privacy properties of large, distributed systems.

I am currently advising four doctoral students in cooperation with the Doctoral School NRW, of which I am a full member. In addition to my academic publications, I regularly serve on the program committees of international security and privacy conferences, including NDSS, PETS, RAID, ACSAC, ESORICS, and ACNS.

Before joining Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, I was the CEO and founder of AWARE7. Together with Chris Wojzechowski, I published two books on digital security with Wiley in German: „Meine digitale Sicherheit für Dummies" (2024) and „Meine digitale Sicherheit — Tipps und Tricks für Dummies" (2021).

• Abed, O., Haque, Md. S., Bök, P.-B., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2026). Evaluating Large Language Models as Domain-Specific Retrieval Agents: A Study on Cybersecurity Challenge Benchmarks. In R. Campos, A. Jatowt, Y. Lan, M. Aliannejadi, C. Bauer, S. MacAvaney, A. Annand, Z. Ren, S. Verberne, N. Bai, & M. Mansoury (editors), Advances in Information Retrieval. 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 – April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 328–337). SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_23.
• Abed, O., Basri, R., Bök, P.-B., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2026). When LLMs Give Voting Advice: Bias, Coherence, and Educational Risk. In E. G. Blanchard, G. Chen, M. Chi, & S. Isotani (editors), Artificial Intelligence in Education. 27th International Conference, AIED 2026, Seoul, South Korea, June 27–July 3, 2026, Proceedings, Part VI (pp. 318–326). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-29773-0_23.
• Bas, F., Große-Kampmann, M., & Bök, P.-B. (2026). Performance of RISC-V SoCs for Secure Edge Applications: A Benchmark-Driven Analysis. In IEEE (editor), 2026 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) (pp. 1297–1302). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/iwcmc69287.2026.11579896.
• Mennerich, K., Chrambach, M. C., Gohres, M. L., Abed, O., Bök, P.-B., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2026). Seeing Data Rights: Understanding of Pictograms and Color Cues for Privacy and Complex Data Practices. In S. Ma & S. Nepal (editors), Information Security and Privacy. 31st Australasian Conference, ACISP 2026, Perth, WA, Australia, July 6–9, 2026, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 517–536). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-3018-1_23.
• Paus, A., Große-Kampmann, M., & Bök, P.-B. (2026). Performance Evaluation of AI-based Live Siren Detection on Smartphones in Vehicular Scenarios. In IEEE (editor), 2026 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) (pp. 1290–1296). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/iwcmc69287.2026.11580044.
• Böttger, C., Hossein, H., Utz, C., Demir, N., Hörnemann, J., Wressnegger, C., Hupperich, T., Pohlmann, N., Große-Kampmann, M., & Urba, U. (2025). Privacy from 5 PM to 6 AM: Tracking and Transparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem. In IEEE (editor), 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/dsn64029.2025.00017.
• Bök, P.-B., & Grosse-Kampmann, M. (2025). Resilience in Smart Healthcare Systems. Studies in health technology and informatics, 330, 927–946. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti251468.
• Farzizada, A., Bök, P.-B., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2025). Evaluating Cloud and On-Premises Hosting Solutions: A Comparative Study for the Azerbaijani Market. In Association for Computing Machinery (editor), SIoTEC ’25: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Secure IoT, Edge and Cloud Systems (p. 1). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3770740.3771877.
• Hörnemann, J., Braun, O., Theis, D., Pohlmann, N., Urban, T., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2025). Exploring the Effects of Cybersecurity Awareness and Decision-Making Under Risk. In J. Zhao & W. Meng (editors), Science of Cyber Security: 6th International Conference, SciSec 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 14–16, 2024, Proceedings (1 ed., pp. 196–216). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2417-1_11.
• Baumhör, C., Henning, T., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2024). Threat Modeling Towards Resilience in Smart ICUs. In H. Abie, V. Gkioulos, S. Katsikas, & S. Pirbhulal (editors), Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare (1884 ed., pp. 37–50). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55829-0_3.
• Große-Kampmann, M., & Wojzechowski, C. (2024). Meine digitale Sicherheit für Dummies. Wiley-VCH GmbH.
• Johannes Wilke, A., Magnus Nold, J., Braun, O., Meissner, F., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2024). Self-promotion with a chance of warnings: Exploring Cybersecurity Communication Among Government Institutions on LinkedIn. In A. Matviienko, J. Niess, & T. Kosch (editors), MUM ’24: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (pp. 119–132). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3701571.3701575.
• Ludwig, J., Moonsamy, V., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2024). The Rings of Tracking: Evaluating Security and Privacy in the Smart Ring Ecosystem. In IEEE (editor), 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops (ACSAC Workshops) (pp. 186–193). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/acsacw65225.2024.00027.
• Demir, N., Große-Kampmann, M., Urban, T., Wressnegger, C., Holz, T., & Pohlmann, N. (2022). Reproducibility and Replicability of Web Measurement Studies. In F. Laforest, R. Troncy, E. Simperl, D. Agarwal, A. Gionis, I. Herman, & L. Médini (editors), WWW ’22: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (pp. 533–544). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3485447.3512214.
• Große-Kampmann, M. (2022). Towards understanding attack surfaces of analog and digital threats. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. https://doi.org/10.13154/294-8789.
• Gruber, M., Höfig, C., Golla, M., Urban, T., & Große-Kampmann, M. (2022). “We may share the number of diaper changes”: A Privacy and Security Analysis of Mobile Child Care Applications. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(3), 394–414. The 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2022-0078.
• Große-Kampmann, M., & Wojzechowski, C. (2021). Meine digitale Sicherheit Tipps und Tricks für Dummies (1. Auflage). Wiley-VCH GmbH.
• Urban, T., Große-Kampmann, M., Tatang, D., Holz, T., & Pohlmann, N. (2020). Plenty of Phish in the Sea: Analyzing Potential Pre-attack Surfaces. In L. Chen, N. Li, K. Liang, & S. Schneider (editors), Computer Security – ESORICS 2020: 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020, Guildford, UK, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (1 ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59013-0_14.

• 01/08/2024 - 31/01/2028 | KI-basierte Ad-hoc Kontextualisierung und Prüfung von Informationen im Web zur Unterstützung der politischen Meinungsbildung und Partizipation | Funder: Daimler und Benz Stiftung | Go to project

My research focuses on the analysis of security and privacy in distributed systems.

• Observing Web measurements and their methodology with regard to the reproducibility and replicability of web measurement studies, as well as the impact of different experimental setups on the results.
• Investigating tracking and transparency mechanisms in various ecosystems, such as HbbTV or regional filter lists.
• I study phishing and security awareness through large-scale analyses of phishing simulations across various industries.
• Security of connected devices, such as smart ring ecosystems or mobile childcare apps.
• We examine large language models in security-critical contexts by using LLMs as domain-specific retrieval agents, as well as biases and educational risks in automated voting advice.

My work has been published in international, peer-reviewed venues including the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), the ACM Web Conference, the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), and the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS).

In addition, I am currently very interested in research methodologies, creativity in the scientific process, and teaching with and without AI. I’m always happy to discuss these topics.