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Ina Berenice Fink is a Researcher and PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University's Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (2019) and is affiliated with both the Security and Privacy Group and Cyber-Physical Systems Group. Her work focuses on securing communication in critical infrastructure and industrial environments. She has served as a part-time lecturer at FH Aachen and actively contributes to teaching through seminars, labs, and thesis supervision. Notable awards include the 2020 Women’s STEM Award for her master’s thesis on in-network security and the 2019 Female Student Travel Award.
Her research spans projects like VeN2uS (low-latency critical infrastructure communication), CONSENT (smart home security), and myneData/TRINICS. She has published extensively on topics including network monitoring, resilient smart grid communication, and industrial IoT security. Her work combines programmable networking, protocol evaluation, and cybersecurity frameworks to address real-world challenges in distributed systems.
In teaching, she supervises bachelor’s/master’s theses on network emulation, industrial security, and programmable data planes. Her advising record includes over a dozen theses with topics ranging from starlink performance evaluation to secure industrial MUD frameworks. She collaborates across RWTH departments and external institutions, contributing to both academic conferences and applied security solutions.
