Biography

Prof. Dr. Matthias HOLLICK has a double affiliation with the IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (20%). After receiving the Ph.D. degree from TU Darmstadt in 2004, he has been researching and teaching at TU Darmstadt, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and IMDEA Networks.

Dr. Matthias HOLLICK is an internationally leading researcher in secure mobile systems with more than 20 years of experience and a track record of coordinating impactful research centers. His expertise spans decentralized networks, cybersecurity, privacy, digital resilience as well as human-computer interaction. He is known for consistently publishing in the top tier journals and conferences, earning 13 best paper awards since 2023. He is an advocate for open science and the research software developed by his team has significant impact, garnering over 33000 GitHub stars and exceeding 1.5 million downloads across the iOS and Android ecosystems.

With his double affiliation, he is in the privileged position to work with two world-class institutions in his respective area of expertise. He is building the new Secure Mobile Systems Group at IMDEA Networks, which will focus on building resilient decentralized networked systems to address critical societal challenges. Simultaneously, he will continue running TU Darmstadt’s Secure Mobile Networking Lab and contributing to high-impact projects in Germany, such as the LOEWE-Center emergenCITY, which reimagines Digital Resilience and the ATHENE Center, which focuses on Cybersecurity and Privacy.

As an IMDEA Networks Research Professor, Dr. Hollick supervises PhD students as a first advisor both at UC3M as well as the Computer Science Department of TU Darmstadt.

All Publications

Find Dr. Hollick’s full publication list at Google Scholar.

Recent IMDEA publications can be found below.