| Elisabeth Oswald | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wolfsberg, Carinthia |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | Graz University of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Thesis | On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Reinhard Posch [de] |
Maria Elisabeth Oswald is an Austrian cryptographer known for her work on side-channel attacks including power analysis and on implementations of cryptosystems that are resistant to these attacks. She is a professor at the University of Klagenfurt.
Education and career
Oswald is originally from Wolfsberg, Carinthia. She studied mathematics and information processing at the Graz University of Technology, completing her Ph.D. there in 2003 with the dissertation On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures supervised by Reinhard Posch [de].
She started working at the University of Bristol in 2006 as a lecturer, and later became Professor in Applied Cryptography there. She moved to Klagenfurt in 2019, describing herself as a "Brexit refugee". She continues to be affiliated with the University of Bristol as an Honorary Professor. Since 2023 she has taken up a professorial position at the University of Birmingham.
Book
With Stefan Mangard and Thomas Popp, Oswald is a coauthor of the book Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smartcards (Springer, 2007).
References
- ^ "Man kann alles attackieren" [You can attack anything], Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung (in German), 27 December 2019
- ^ The University of Klagenfurt makes the first professorial appointment to the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC): Elisabeth Oswald, who specializes in researching cybersecurity, arrives in Klagenfurt, University of Klagenfurt, 24 September 2019, retrieved 2020-09-30
- Elisabeth Oswald at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Dr Maria Oswald, University of Bristol, retrieved 2020-09-30
- "Dr Maria Oswald, Honorary Professor", Faculty of Engineering People, University of Bristol, retrieved 2020-09-30
- Professor Elisabeth Oswald, University of Birmingham, retrieved 2024-05-06
- Tisserand, Arnaud (2010), "Review of Power Analysis Attacks" (PDF), IACR Book Reviews, International Association for Cryptologic Research
External links
- Elisabeth Oswald publications indexed by Google Scholar