I am a PhD student in the RootSec lab at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, advised by Dr. Michael Schwarz. In Fall 2024, I was a research intern at Google, where I continued exploring side-channel attacks targeting Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs). Before starting my PhD, I worked as a security researcher at PeckShield from July 2018 to February 2021.

My research focuses on CPU and system security, including software-based architectural attacks, side channels, and the security of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). I am particularly interested in bridging hardware security research with real-world impact. I have disclosed critical vulnerabilities that necessitated microcode and firmware patches across major cloud providers, including Google Cloud, AWS, IBM, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, directly hardening the environments that handle the world’s most sensitive workloads.

Beyond immediate mitigation, my work ranges from side-channel analysis to exposing risks in RISC-V, and has contributed to reshaping threat models in both open and closed architectures. These contributions have been widely discussed in industry media, including like Tom’s Hardware, BleepingComputer, The Register, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, among many others.

I am on the academic job market for the 2025-2026 cycle. I am actively seeking opportunities and would be happy to discuss a potential fit.