Jan Seedorf

Jan Seedorf received a B.Sc. degree in 2001 and a Diploma degree in 2002 in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany, with special focus on IT-security. Since 2002 he is a research assistent at the computer science department at the University of Hamburg, Germany. There he is conducting teaching and research within the “Security in Distributed Systems” group, working towards a Ph.D. degree. Formerly, he used to be an active member of the anti-Virus-Test-Center (aVTC), testing the quality of AntiMalware Software. His current research focuses on the security of Voice over IP systems, and the security of peer-to-peer networks. In particular he is interested in the session initiation protocol (SIP), and the security of structured overlay networks and distributed hash tables.