Elisabeth Oswald works as an academic researcher in the area of applied crypto, in particular leakage-based attacks. She has a particular interest in the intersection of statistics, machine/deep learning and side channels, and tries to develop tools and techniques to make sophisticated leakage analysis techniques accessible in the context of securing crypto implementations against side channel attacks. She has been an active member in the crypto community for many years: she has chaired the biggest events (CHES, Eurocrypt) and is associate editor of the Journal of Cryptology and the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. She currently holds a professorship at AAU in Klagenfurt (Austria) where she is leading the Cybersecurity research.