The front cover of my thesis, titled Security and Privacy in the Smart Grid. It displays a drawn image of a smart meter, with the thesis title in the digital display, and my name as a printed label, slightly crooked, on its front. Three electricity wires exit out the bottom of the meter, then curve horizontally to the left into the spine of the cover.

The public defence of my PhD thesis, titled “Security and Privacy in the Smart Grid”, took take place on September 25, 2023, in the Aula building of Radboud University.

Click here for a digital copy of my PhD thesis.

Code & datasets

The code and datasets referenced in the thesis in chapter 1.2 are linked below.

Chapter 3

The source code for EM side-channel analysis & graphing as well as the dataset of electromagnetic traces are available through the DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences.

Please be mindful that, although the dataset is available under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

Chapter 6

The source code for DLMS compression privacy analysis & graphing is available through the DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences.

Erratum for the Zonnedael dataset

The URLs for the Zonnedael dataset have changed since publication. They can now be found at: