Lucas Davi is a research assistant at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing (ICRI-SC) at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, Germany. He received his MSc in IT-Security from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His current research focuses on runtime attacks such as return-oriented programming (ROP) for ARM and Intel based systems. He is working on new attack methods and countermeasures against runtime attacks. His further research areas include mobile operating system security and Trusted Computing.