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Education

• M.Sc. in IT-Security Networks and Systems, Ruhr University Bochum, October 2020 - December 2022
• B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, January 2017 - February 2020

Work experience

• Chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiqituous Systems
  • Bochum, since December 2022
  • PhD student @ Ruhr University Bochum
  • Embedded Firmware Analysis.
  • Hardware Security.
• Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
  • Bochum, October 2020 - December 2022
  • Student assistant
  • Security analysis of FPGAs with focus on vulnerabilities.
  • Analysis of hardware netlists to reconstruct their underlying logic.
  • Implementation of (Post-Quantum-)Cryptography schemes in Jasmin.
• emproof GmbH
  • Bochum, September 2019 - September 2020
  • Student assistant
  • Research in the field of Anti-Debug and Anti-Emulation techniques for embedded systems.
• Chair fo System Security
  • Bochum, March 2019 - August 2019
  • Student assistant, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Research on devirtualization techniques and analysis of virtual machine obfuscation with focus on VMProtect.
• G-Data
  • Bochum, November 2017 - February 2019
  • Student assistant
  • Development & Research in the field of ransomwares.

Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, ARM/Thumb Assembly, x86/x64 Assembly, Python
• Tools: Ghidra, IDA Pro, GDB, ADB, Frida, Unicorn, Capstone, Keystone, Z3, Git
• Interests: Reverse Engineering, Programming, Formal Methods, Cryptography
• Languages: German (Mother tongue), English (Fluent)