Topic: Digital forensics - crime investigation through digitalization
Speaker: Prof. Dirk Labudde, Chair of Forensics, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
Time: Friday, September 19, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau , Faraday lecture hall, Weimarer Straße 32, access via Prof.-Schmidt-Straße
Admission: 5 Euro
Evidence, i.e. objects that have been seized or confiscated by authorities such as the police or customs, are essential for solving crimes. Forensics as a science of crime investigation must keep pace with the digitalization that is changing our entire lives. Smartphones and other intelligent devices in everyday life and at work have not only made our lives "smarter", they have also changed the possibilities for criminals: They use these devices to prepare and carry out crimes. Forensics must face up to this challenge and respond to it with new methods - and digital forensics is more than just the search for digital traces and the analysis of digital evidence.
In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus, Prof. Dirk Labudde, holder of the Chair of Forensics at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, will use selected cases to explain the role of digital forensics. In biology, the term missing link describes undiscovered links in evolution. Is digitalization precisely the link between analogue and digital forensics? What role does digital forensics play in the overall construct of analogue and digital traces? How can digitalization be used to turn analogue and digital forensics into a holistic science? At the end, Prof. Dirk Labudde will draw the conclusion: Only those who think analog and digital traces simultaneously will be successful in solving crimes.
Ursula Nirsberger
TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus
+ 49 3677 69 4794
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
