Faculty
EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award (2020)
NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Honorable Mention: Meltdown (2019)
Open Exploit Award: Meltdown and Spectre (2019)
S&P Distinguished Paper Award - Spectre (2019)
CSAW Best Paper Award - Meltdown (2018)
Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug - Meltdown (2018)
Pwnie Awardfor Most Innovative Research - Spectre (2018)
I am Faculty at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) in
Saarbrücken, Germany, with a focus on microarchitectural side-channel
attacks and system security. I obtained my PhD with the title
"Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted
Environments" in 2019 from Graz University of Technology (advised by
Daniel Gruss). I hold two master's degrees, one in computer science and
one in software engineering with a strong focus on security. I am a
regular speaker at both academic and hacker conferences (7 times Black
Hat, CCC, Blue Hat, etc.). I was part of one of the research teams that
found the Meltdown, Spectre, Fallout, and LVI vulnerabilities, as well
as the ZombieLoad vulnerability. I was also part of the KAISER patch,
the basis for Meltdown countermeasures now deployed in every modern
operating system under names such as KPTI or KVA Shadow.