Ina Berenice Fink, M.Sc.

Researcher

	Ahornstraße 55, building E3 52074 Aachen Germany
	9031
	+49 241 80-21419
	ina.fink@comsys.rwth-aachen.de

Short CV

Background
I have been a researcher and PhD student at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems since September 2019. I hold an M.Sc. in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, completed in July 2019. As a member of both the Security and Privacy Group and the Cyber-Physical Systems Group, my research focuses on developing tailored solutions for reliable and secure communication in specialized environments, including industrial and critical infrastructures.

Awards
In June 2020, I received the 1st prize of the Women’s STEM Award sponsored by Deutsche Telekom AG for my master’s thesis on “Advanced In-Network Security for Smart Devices”. In May 2019, I was awarded the 1st prize of the Female Student Travel Award 2019 by the Collaborative Research Center MAKI (Multi-Mechanisms Adaptation for the Future Internet) in recognition of my academic performance.

Projects

I am currently affiliated with the VeN2uS project, where I research how to combine high communication reliability and resilience with low latency in the context of critical infrastructure. Before, I was associated with the CONSENT project, where I examined how to enhance smart home security with access control and software-defined networking. As a student assistant (2017-2019), I was further involved in the myneData and TRINICS projects.

Teaching

I am/have been involved in various teaching activities at RWTH Aachen University. These include supervising topics in our preseminar and seminar courses as well as working as a teaching assistant for our basic and advanced lectures (e.g., Data Communication and Security and Advanced Internet Technology) and our Practical Internet eXperience (PIX) Lab. Furthermore, I supervised several student projects in our Research Focus Classes (Cyber-Physical System Security, In-Network Processing, Securing Industrial Networks), and I was employed as a part-time lecturer for Sicherheit in Datennetzen (B course) at FH Aachen in WS 2020/2021.

I regularly offer individual topics for bachelor’s and master’s theses. If you are interested in writing your thesis with me, please drop me a short mail with your motivation and concrete interests under consideration of our general recommendations regarding available theses.

Publications

Ina Berenice Fink, Ike Kunze, Pascal Hein, Jan Pennekamp, Benjamin Standaert, Klaus Wehrle, Jan Rüth. Advancing Network Monitoring with Packet-Level Records and Selective Flow Aggregation. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS ‘25), May 12 - May 16, 2025, Honolulu, HI, USA. May 2025.

Ina Berenice Fink, Lennart Ferlemann, Markus Dahlmanns, Christian Thimm, Klaus Wehrle. Emulating and Evaluating Transport Layer Protocols for Resilient Communication in Smart Grids. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS ‘25), May 12 - May 16, 2025, Honolulu, HI, USA. May 2025.

Ina Berenice Fink, Markus Dahlmanns, Gerrit Erichsen, Klaus Wehrle. Resilient Control Center to Substation Device Communication. Proceedings of the CIRED Chicago Workshop 2024 on Resilience of Electric Distribution Systems, Nov 7 - Nov 8, 2024, Chicago, IL, United States. November 2024.

Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Gerrit Erichsen, Guosong Lin, Thomas Hammer, Burkhard Borkenhagen, Sebastian Schneider, Christof Maahsen, Klaus Wehrle. Reliable and Secure Control Center to Station Device Communication. Proceedings of the CIRED workshop on Increasing Distribution Network Hosting Capacity 2024, Jun 19 - Jun 20, 2024, Vienna, Austria. June 2024.

Ina Berenice Fink, Markus Dahlmanns, Klaus Wehrle. Poster: Resiliente Kommunikation für die Fernwirktechnik in digitalen Umspannwerken. VDE ETG/FNN-Tutorial 2024 Schutz- und Leittechnik, Mar 5 - Mar 6, 2024, Leipzig, Germany. March 2024.

Jan Pennekamp, Johannes Lohmöller, Eduard Vlad, Joscha Loos, Niklas Rodemann, Patrick Sapel, Ina Berenice Fink, Seth Schmitz, Christian Hopmann, Matthias Jarke, Günther Schuh, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. Designing Secure and Privacy-Preserving Information Systems for Industry Benchmarking. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE ‘23), vol. 13901, Jun 12 - Jun 16, 2023, Zaragoza, Spain. June 2023.

Tobias Lorz, Johann Jaeger, Antigona Selimaj, Immanuel Hacker, Andreas Ulbig, Jan-Peter Heckel, Christian Becker, Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Klaus Wehrle, Gerrit Erichsen, Michael Schindler, Rainer Luxenburger, Guosong Lin. Interconnected grid protection systems - reference grid for testing an adaptive protection scheme. 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023), Jun 12 - Jun 15, 2023, Rome, Italy. January 2023.

Konrad Wolsing, Antoine Saillard, Jan Bauer, Eric Wagner, Christian van Sloun, Ina Berenice Fink, Mari Schmidt, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. Network Attacks Against Marine Radar Systems: A Taxonomy, Simulation Environment, and Dataset. IEEE, Sep 26 - Sep 29, 2022, Edmonton, Canada. September 2022.

Dominik Kus, Eric Wagner, Jan Pennekamp, Konrad Wolsing, Ina Berenice Fink, Markus Dahlmanns, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. A False Sense of Security? Revisiting the State of Machine Learning-Based Industrial Intrusion Detection. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS ‘22), May 30 - May 30, 2022, Nagasaki Japan. Event co-located with the 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22). May 2022.

Matthias Lorenz, Tobias Markus Pletzer, Malte Schuhmacher, Torsten Sowa, Michael Dahms, Simon Stock, Davood Babazadeh, Christian Becker, Johann Jaeger, Tobias Lorz, Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Klaus Wehrle, Andreas Ulbig, Philipp Linnartz, Antigona Selimaj, Thomas Offergeld. Interconnected network protection systems - the basis for the reliable and safe operation of distribution grids with a high penetration of renewable energies and electric vehicle. Proceedings of the CIRED workshop on E-mobility and power distribution systems 2022, Jun 2 - Jun 3, 2022, Porto, Portugal. January 2022.

Ina Berenice Fink, Martin Serror, Klaus Wehrle. DEMONS: Extended Manufacturer Usage Description to Restrain Malicious Smartphone Apps. IEEE, Oct 4 - Oct 7, 2021, Edmonton, Canada. October 2021.

Markus Dahlmanns, Jan Pennekamp, Ina Berenice Fink, Bernd Schoolmann, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. Transparent End-to-End Security for Publish/Subscribe Communication in Cyber-Physical Systems. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS ‘21), Apr 28 - Apr 28, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. Event co-located with the 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '21). April 2021.

Jan Pennekamp, Patrick Sapel, Ina Berenice Fink, Simon Wagner, Sebastian Reuter, Christian Hopmann, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. Revisiting the Privacy Needs of Real-World Applicable Company Benchmarking. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC ‘20), Dec 15 - Dec 15, 2020, Virtual Event. December 2020.

Ina Berenice Fink, Martin Serror, Klaus Wehrle. Extending MUD to Smartphones. IEEE, Nov 16 - Nov 19, 2020, Sydney, Australia. November 2020.

Markus Dahlmanns, Johannes Lohmöller, Ina Berenice Fink, Jan Pennekamp, Klaus Wehrle, Martin Henze. Easing the Conscience with OPC UA: An Internet-Wide Study on Insecure Deployments. Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ‘20), Oct 27 - Oct 29, 2020, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. October 2020.

Linus Roepert, Markus Dahlmanns, Ina Berenice Fink, Jan Pennekamp, Martin Henze. Assessing the Security of OPC UA Deployments. Proceedings of the 1st ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec ‘20), Apr 2 - Apr 3, 2020, Tübingen, Germany. April 2020.

Martin Henze, Ritsuma Inaba, Ina Berenice Fink, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf. Privacy-preserving Comparison of Cloud Exposure Induced by Mobile Apps. Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Melbourne, Australia. November 2017.

Ina Berenice Fink, Bernd Hankammer, Thomas Stopinski, Yannic Titgemeyer, Roann Ramos, Ekaterina Kutafina, Jó Agila Bitsch, Stephan Michael Jonas. BrainLab - Ein Framework für mobile neurologische Untersuchungen. 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS), Oldenburg, Germany. August 2017.
Best Abstract Award

Ina Berenice Fink, Bernd Hankammer, Thomas Stopinsky, Roann Ramos, Ekaterina Kutafina, Jó Agila Bitsch, Stephan Jonas. BrainLab – towards mobile brain research. Informatics for Health 2017, Manchester, UK. April 2017.

Advised Theses

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A Topic in network emulation

Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2025

Advisor: Ina Berenice Fink

Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Redha Gouicem (Operating Systems)

Assessing the Effectiveness of Different Network Monitoring Approaches for Intrusion Detection in the IIoT

Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2024

Advisor: Ina Berenice Fink

Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)

A Topic in Smart Grid Communication

Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2024

Advisor: Ina Berenice Fink

Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Stefan Kowalewski (i11)