Max Van Der Horst
PhD Researcher at Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMax Van Der Horst is a cybersecurity researcher and PhD candidate at TU Delft with nine years of hands-on experience in vulnerability discovery, CSIRT operations, and cyber resilience. He co-leads DIVD’s CSIRT, has led R&D teams, and regularly coordinates disclosure of zero-days and CVEs while maintaining strategic ties with governments and academia. Max combines practical incident response and secure engineering with applied research at institutions like Thales and ECCRI, and teaches ethics and law of vulnerability disclosure to advanced law programs. Known for blending technical depth (from systems programming and cloud security to crypto and ML-assisted SOC tooling) with policy-minded analysis, he also publishes ideas and investigations on his site disclosing.observer. Pragmatic, methodical, and curious, he frames vulnerabilities as societal challenges rather than just technical defects.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Security and Network Engineering, 8, Master of Science - MS, Security and Network Engineering, 8 at University of AmsterdamProblem Solving with Business Informatics, 8, Problem Solving with Business Informatics, 8 at Hochschule der Medien StuttgartPremaster, Computer Systems Security, 7, Premaster, Computer Systems Security, 7 at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, HBO-ICT: Cyber Security, 9 (cum laude), Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, HBO-ICT: Cyber Security, 9 (cum laude) at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (12)
indexer10
gundb10
binding7
haven5
python4
docker3
llvm2
jit2
compiler2
command-line-tool1
kindle1
cli1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Maximand/Maximand
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Maximand/sites
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
https://www.divd.nl and https://csirt.divd.nl websites
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
csirt
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