More than 20 years ago, the IT Security program at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) was the first of its kind in Germany. Since then, many students have successfully graduated, some of them even earning a doctorate in Bochum to start their careers from here. We present some of these graduates in our new series “Alumni of the Month“. They will tell us what they learned in Bochum and how they have progressed since then.
HGI-Alumni of the month September:
Dr. Johannes Dahse
Then and Now
- 2006 - 2012: Dipl.-Ing. IT-Sicherheit, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 2007 - 2015: Co-Founder & Member “FluxFingers CTF Team“
- 2009 - 2011: Co-Founder & Teaching Assistant “Hackerpraktikum“
- 2013 - 2016: Dr.-Ing. IT-Sicherheit, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, at the chair SysSec
- 2022: Head of R&D, SonarSource
Living in Bochum
Work history
- 2020 - heute: Head of R&D, SonarSource
- 2016 - 2020: Co-Founder & CEO, RIPS Technologies GmbH (taken over from SonarSource)
- 2012 - 2016: Security Consultant, Cure53
Lessons Learned
- In my studies: All problems are solvable somehow.
- In professional life: Technology is easy, communicating technology is key in all areas (R&D, product management, marketing, sales, investors, ...).
IT Security made in Bochum - Alumni Network at LinkedIn
In our alumni network “IT SECURITY made in BOCHUM“ former students, doctoral candidates and researchers with a connection to IT security at RUB are invited to connect and discuss. All alumni of the study programs IT Security (Bachelor/Master) as well as all former employees (PhD students, researchers and administrators) of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at the RUB are welcome in our network, as well as alumni of related study programs like Computer Science or Applied Computer Science.
We welcome all new members of the constantly growing community!
General note: In case of using gender-assigning attributes we include all those who consider themselves in this gender regardless of their own biological sex.