Women in Forensic Computing 2025
Women in Forensic Computing Workshop and Bootcamp
held in cooperation with DFRWS EU 2025 in Brno, Czech Republic, on March 31, 2025
Scope
Digital forensic science is the application of scientific methods of computing in order to recover and investigate evidence found in digital devices, often in relation to computer crime. Digital evidence is increasingly important in almost all types of juridical proceedings, mainly due to the increasing volume and quality of digital evidence.
The objective of this workshop is to increase the interest of students and academically young researchers in digital forensic science as a career field or a research field. Another aim of this workshop is to increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in the area of forensic computing/digital forensics and therefore this workshop wishes to be a forum to help women build their technical confidence and thereby attract more female researchers to the field. This workshop is aimed at introducing new people to the area. Talks will be technical but are aimed at novices in the area. The workshop is part of a workshop series that started in 2019.
The workshop will include a sequence of presentations and panels by women that introduce some fundamental and current topics of the field and allow for first-hand hands-on experience. Attendees may also present their own work in short presentations.
Location
D0207 Lecture Room 90, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology
Božetěchova 2
612 00 Brno
Czech Republic
Participation
Participation in the workshop is free of charge and open to all genders, but the number of participants we can accept is limited.
To participate, complete the application form at:
https://user-surveys.cs.fau.de/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=138873&lang=en
by March 1, 2025, providing details about your current affiliation, research interests, why the workshop interests you, and whether you wish to participate in person or online. Applications after that date are also possible but will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. Feel free to apply to participate in the workshop even after the deadline!
Please also consider submitting a presentation proposal. You can apply for a travel scholarship as well, but please note the earlier deadline of January 18, 2025.
Participant Presentations
Participants of the workshop have the opportunity to apply for a slot to present their current research or insights into a profession in the field of digital forensics in a 5-10-minute talk at the workshop. If you are interested, please send the title and an abstract of the presentation proposal together with the registration (see above) by March 1, 2025. Presentations can be delivered on-site or online. Presentations should include one slide to motivate why digital forensics is an interesting field. There will be a lightweight selection process for presentations by the organizing committee.
Travel Scholarship
We also offer several scholarships (sponsored by FAU) for female students who wish to participate in the workshop: The scholarship will cover part of your travel costs and the attendance fee for the DFRWS EU 2025 conference. For applicants from Europe, we support travel costs up to 500 EUR. For applicants from outside Europe, please give an estimate for the expected travel costs in your registration (see above) by January 18, 2025.
We will notify scholarship applicants of the organizing committee’s decision regarding whether they have been awarded the scholarship by January 25, 2025. If you need more than two months to organize your travel, please indicate this in your application by selecting the corresponding option in the application form.
Preliminary Program
Please note: All times listed in this program are in Central European Time (CET), UTC+1.
Monday, March 31, 2025
09:30: Arrival and coffee
10:00: Welcome by the organizers, Round of individual introductions by the attendees
10:30: Invited talk 1: Dr. Nina Sunde (Norwegian Police University College, Norway)
11:00: Coffee break
11:30: Invited talk 2: Dr. Ana Nieto (S2 Grupo, Spain)
12:00: Participant Presentations (5-10 minutes per presentation including questions)/Lightning talks
13:00: Lunch break
14:30: Invited talk 3
15:00: Invited talk 4
15:30: Coffee break
16:00: Hands-on session
18:00: Workshop ends
20:00: Social event
Organizing Committee
The workshop is jointly organized by the following people:
- Felix Freiling, FAU, Germany
- Katerina Kanta, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Yasin Köse, FAU, Germany
- Daryl Pfeif, Founding Member – Cyber Sleuth Science Lab, DFRWS, Digital Forensics Solutions
- Svenja Mischur, Germany
- Theresa Müller, Germany
- Monika Radhakisan Chavan
- Lisa Rzepka, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
- Silvia Lucia Sanna, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Mariya Shafat, University of Kashmir, India
- Radina Stoykova, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Céline Vanini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lena Voigt, FAU, Germany
Contact
Contact the organizers via email at <women-in-forensic-computing@lists.cs.fau.de>
Thanks
This workshop series is supported by the office of Gender and Diversity of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the Research and Training Group 2475 „Cybercrime and Forensic Computing“ (grant number 393541319/GRK2475/2-2024).