Nils Ole Tippenhauer is a faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, heading the SCy-Phy research group. Until 2018, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He earned his Dr. Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2012. At ETH, he was part of the System Security group led by Prof. Srdjan Capkun. In 2007, he received a degree in Computer Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the Hamburg University of Technology (Germany). As part of his undergraduate studies, he visited the University of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada) between 2004-2005 supported by a DAAD scholarship.