In the German speaking computer science world, Dagstuhl is a magic word — the seminars there are as renowned as the library and the obligatory picture on the stairs of Schloss Dagstuhl.

In January 2016, George Danezis (University College London, GB), Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE), Christiane Peters (IBM Belgium, BE) and Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, BE) invited international researchers to a Dagstuhl seminar on “Privacy and Security in Smart Energy Grids”. Dominik Engel was thrilled to get asked to participate, discuss ideas and research trends and finally get into a pictures on the famous stairs.