About the Author

Christof Paar

Christof Paar has the Chair for Embedded Security at the University of Bochum, Germany, and is Affiliated Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. He has worked in applied cryptography since 1995.

Dr. Paar has taught cryptography and security courses for 15 years to more than 1,000 students in engineering and computer science programs in the US and Europe. He also taught extensively to industry participants, including courses at Motorola Research, NASA and Philips Research. Dr. Paar has more than 150 publications in applied cryptography and is co-founder of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES).

Contact Christof Paar: Christof.Paar@rub.de