Thorsten Schneider received his diploma in medical informatics from the University of Heidelberg in 2002, and the Doctor rerum medicarum with Magna cum laude from the Free University of Berlin (Charité Universitätsmedizin Campus Benjamin Franklin) in 2004. He was scientific assistant at the bioinformatics faculty at the University of Bielefeld from 2003 to 2004 and is currently scientific assistant for software engineering at the University of Hannover. He is a member of the Center for Space Medicine Berlin (ZWMB). His current research interests include reverse code engineering, experimental and empirical software engineering and time series analysis. He is working on his postdoctoral thesis in the field of reverse code engineering, watermarking, obfuscation, decompilation and software protection. He maintains and administrates several reverse code engineering websites, including the Reverse Code Engineering Portal (Anticrack) (http://www.reverse-engineering.net), the Reverse Engineering Academy (http://www.reverser-course.de) and the crackmes website system (http://www.crackmes.de).