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• Fast software algorithms for cryptographic implementations
• Hardware architectures for cryptography
• Physical attacks against real-world systems
• Cryptanalytical hardware
• Security in embedded applications such as smart cards, cars, etc.
• Security in mobile and ad-hoc networks

• 1991, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Universität Siegen
• 1991-1994, Research Assistant, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Universität Essen
• 1994, Ph.D. thesis about computer architectures for Galois field arithmetic
• 1995-2001 Faculty member in the ECE Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA
• 1997-2001, Head of the Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Labs
• 1999, Co-founder of the CHES Workshop (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems)
• since 2001, Chair for Embedded Security, ECE Department, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 2004-2007, Director of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• since 2009, Affiliated Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

• "Physical Attacks in a Physical World", Invited Talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 4, 2010.
• "The Next 10 Years of IT Security: RFID, BMWs and Burglars", Invited talk at Stanford University, August 20, 2008.
• "Light-Weight Cryptography for Ubiquitous Computing", Invited talk at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, December 4, 2006.
• "Breaking Ciphers with COPACOBANA - A Cost-Optimized Parallel Code-Breaker", Talk at the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2006, Yokohama, Japan, October 11-1 2006.

• Candidate Statement by Christof Paar for the IACR BoD Election