Hendrik Wingbermühle has been working with Prof. Björn Scheuermann at the LOEWE Center emergenCITY since July 2025. He is writing his doctoral thesis on resilient and secure communication in the communication networks lab (KOM) at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before and during his master’s degree in IT security, also at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Hendrik Wingbermühle was already working in software development and responsible for security testing of mobile apps.

In the emergenCITY program area of communication, he is now researching disruption-tolerant networks (DTN) for crisis communication, e.g., via satellites. Hendrik Wingbermühle models and simulates various protocol architectures that enable communication in a wide variety of networks despite delays or interruptions, such as those that occur in crisis situations. In a recently published paper, he, together with Julian Zobel and Björn Scheuermann, has already described how the integration of just a few satellite connections into crisis networks can have a strong positive impact on communication quality.

In doing so, he is contributing to the core mission of emergenCITY and its program area: making critical infrastructure more resilient and ensuring communication in the event of a crisis.