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Professor de Winter Prize for Anna Sperotto

During the celebration of the Dies Natalis of the University of Twente (TU), the Professor de Winter Prize was awarded to Anna Sperotto, PhD, of UT research institute CTIT. This publication award for highly talented female candidates recognizes excellent scientific research and aims to encourage further development of a scientific career. 

Ms Sperotto works at the UT as an Assistant Professor at the department Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS). Her field constitutes, amongst other things, the monitoring and modelling of digital networks, detecting unauthorized access, and network management.  

She received the Professor de Winter Prize for her article ‘DNSSEC and its potential for DDoS Attacks,’ which she presented during the ACM Internet Measurements conference in 2014. This conference is regarded as the world's most prestigious conference in the field of internet research. This year, she was also awarded the Applied Networking research Prize 2015 for the same article. This is an award for research that is relevant to the further development of the internet. In her article, Ms Sperotto analyses a special type of DDoS attack. In her publication, she outlines five countermeasures that considerably reduce the impact of an attack.

Anna Sperotto 

Ms Sperotto studied Computer Science at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). After completing her studies, she moved to Twente for a doctoral research project. In 2010, she obtained her doctorate with a thesis titled ‘Flow-based Intrusion Detection’. Afterwards, she worked as a post-doc researcher, and this year she was appointed Assistant Professor at the DACS department.

Professor de Winter Prize 

The Professor de Winter Prize, named after professor De Winter, who died in 2005, is an international publication award for highly talented female candidates. It is a recognition for excellent scientific research and aims to encourage further development of a scientific career. This award for highly talented women has been made possible by a donation by the late Mrs De Winter (who died on 25 April 2013), in cooperation with the University Fund and consists of a sum of €2,500 and a certificate. The Professor de Winter Prize is presented annually by the Rector Magnificus, at the Dies Natalis.