Tobias Scharnowski is a freshly starting PhD student at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He enjoys binary software security and reverse engineering and has recently focused his research on embedded systems. As an active member of the CTF community he has participated in finals of events such as DEF CON CTF, Real World CTF and Hack In The Box. He also is one of the main challenge designers of hack.lu CTF organized by FluxFingers.