David Oswald is a Senior Lecturer (associate professor) in the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main field of research is the security of embedded systems in the real world. His focus is on attack methods that exploit weaknesses in the physical implementation of mathematically secure (cryptographic) algorithms. Those techniques include both (passive) side-channel analysis and (active) fault injection, as well as reverse engineering. His research on vulnerabilities of various wide-spread systems (e.g. DESFire RFID smartcards, Yubikey two-factor authentication tokens, VW/Hitag2 RKE systems, and Intel SGX) has created awareness for the crucial importance of security among developers of embedded devices and processors.