I am a doctoral student and research associate in Human-Centred Security at CASA. My research focuses on developing IT security training that fosters lasting secure behaviour.

Curriculum Vitae

Doctoral Student and Research Associate
Chair of Human-Centred Security, Ruhr University Bochum (CASA)
10/2024 – present

M.Sc. Applied Computer Science
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
10/2021 – 07/2024

B.Sc. Applied Computer Science
Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
10/2017 – 09/2021

Research

My research focuses on how IT security training needs to be built to support lasting secure behaviour rather than short-term knowledge gains. In doing so, it aims to address the gap between widely used awareness-based approaches and the behavioural change required for secure everday practices.

Publication

[1] M. Schöps, S. Shanthakumar, P. Müntefer and M. A. Sasse, “Even after two years, we still have a bad feeling”: Two Comparative Case Studies of the Effects of a Cyberattack on Fear, Trust in the IT Department and Security-Related Stress. 2025 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 24-39, doi: 10.1109/EuroUSEC69254.2025.00013.

Academic Service

External Reviewer for Poster Papers, CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Projects

An excerpt from my current research is a 2D role-playing serious game that aim to convey IT security policies.