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David Basin is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1989 and his Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Saarbrucken in 1996. From 1997–2002 he held the chair of Software Engineering at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research areas are Information Security and Software Engineering. He is the founding director of the ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003-2011. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and Acta Informatica. He is Editor-in-Chief (together with Ueli Maurer) of Springer-Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography. He serves on various management and scientific advisory boards and has consulted extensively for IT companies and government organizations. |
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Ueli Maurer is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 1990. From 1990–1991 he was a DIMACS post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. His research interests include the theory and applications of cryptography and information security. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, and Editor-in-Chief (with David Basin) of Springer Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography. Maurer holds several patents for cryptographic systems. He serves on several management and scientific advisory boards, has consulted extensively for the financial industry, the IT industry, and government organisations, and has co-founded the Zurich-based security-software company Visonys AG. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IACR. |
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Srdjan Capkun is an associate professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from EPFL in 2004. Prior to joining ETH Zurich in 2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles and an assistant professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He is the director of the Zurich Information Security Center since 2011 and a member of the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and was a program chair of the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security in 2009. He coauthored several patents in secure localization and location-based access control and with his group discovered numerous vulnerabilities in commercial localization and physical access-control systems. |
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Torsten Lodderstedt is a Senior Expert in Identity Management Services and System Architect with Deutsche Telekom AG. In his previous positions as consultant and IT architect, he has helped customers since 1996 in various sectors (e.g. government, finance, railway, telecommunication) to build large-scale, security-critical IT systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2004. His areas of expertise are information security, identity management, software engineering methods and tools, as well as software architectures. |
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Patrick Schaller received his masters in mathematics in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2010, both from ETH Zurich. He has worked in numerous industry positions related to Information Security, including as an information security officer for a major Internet service provider and as a software engineer for the finance industry. He currently works for Avaloq as a software engineer developing security-critical software components for the banking industry. |