About Me

Hey, my name is Niklas. I am a PhD candidate in the MPI Software Security Group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum, Germany. I am interested in Software Synthesis, Software Analysis, and Machine Learning. My research vision is to discover a technique that can synthesize secure software.

I am also the Co-Founder and Maintainer of everlense, which is a web application for sharing wedding pictures.

Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Software Engineer for the German Startup clockin, and earned a masters degree in Intelligent Systems from Bielefeld University.

News

📰 Feb 2026 We presented our “Chasing Shadows” at NDSS 2026 in San Diego 🇺🇸!
📰 Jun 2025 Our paper “Top Score on the Wrong Exam” won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 🏆 at ISSTA 2025!
📰 Jun 2025 I presented our paper “Top Score on the Wrong Exam” at ISSTA 2025 in Trondheim 🇳🇴!
📰 Aug 2024 I presented our paper “Limits of ML for Vulnerability Detection” at USENIX 2024 in Philadelphia 🇺🇸!
📰 Dec 2023 I won 2nd place in the Student Research Competition 🥈 at ESEC/FSE 2023 in San Francisco 🇺🇸!