Yesterday I have informed the people involved that effective January 1st I will be starting a new job as a full professor for “Softwaretechnik” at the University of Paderborn. In this position I plan to continue the research my group and I have been pursuing in the area of software security, but also want to broaden my research into the direction of the secure design of cyber-physical systems. In my new function I will be able to do so nicely, as at the same time I will be a member of the leadership team of the Fraunhofer-Group for Design-Methodologies of Mechatronic systems. In addition, I will be contributing to the collaborative research center On-the-fly Computing and the Software Innovation Campus Paderborn. I am very much looking forward to my new responsibilities and colleagues.

At the same time, I plan to continue the close collaborations with my dear colleagues at Darmstadt. I wish to thank everyone in Darmstadt who has contributed to making my past six years there as happy and successful as they were!