Philipp Jovanovic finished his PhD in the field of symmetric cryptology at the University of Passau, Germany, in 2015. In his thesis "Analysis and Design of Symmetric Cryptographic Algorithms" he investigates fault-based attacks on various block ciphers and presents NORX a novel authenticated encryption scheme which is a second round candidate in the still ongoing CAESAR competition. After his graduation, Philipp became a post-doc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he currently works at the Decentralized and Distributed Systems (DeDiS) Lab on scalable cryptographic protocols and their applications in the areas of Internet PKI, software deployment, generation of public randomness, blockchains, etc. He is also a regular speaker at academic and non-academic conferences, and presented, amongst others, at the Chaos Communication Congress, ESORICS, and FSE.
