.Thomas Wollinger
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wollinger studies right now at the scuola loretto in Loppiano (Italy) to become a family counselor.
After he obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Dieburg, he worked at secunet Inc., the largest consulting firm in German in the area of IT-Security.
Between 1999 and 2001, he worked as a Research Assistant in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA (USA). In May 2001, Thomas Wollinger obtained a Master of Science with specialization in applied data security form WPI. From August 2001 to September 2004 he worked as researcher at the University of Bochum in the field of communication security. In June 2004 he obtained his PhD from the Ruhr-University in Bochum. His PhD was awarded with 'summa cum laude', the 'Gerd Massenberg Preis' award for the best dissertation of all the engineering and natural science faculties of the University of Bochum (2004), and a fellowship for a book publication.with honour (summa cum laude).
He was a Fulbright fellow (academic year 1999/2000) and he was awarded a corporate graduate fellowship (academic year 2000/2001) and Quadrille Ball Grant in the USA (academic year 2000/2001).
MR Wollinger also teaches industry courses covering topics like data security and cryptology, e.g. at Motorola labs, GITS AG and TÜV Rheinland.

Research interests:

  • improvements and implementations of the hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem
  • fast software implementations of cryptographic algorithms
  • hardware architectures of cryptographic algorithms
  • aspects of embedded securtiy
  • side-channel attacks

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My PhD was awarded with 'summa cum laude', the 'Gerd Massenberg Preis' award for the best dissertation of all the engineering and natural science faculties of the University of Bochum (2004), and a fellowship for a book publication.
Member of the program committee of the workshop on "Information Security & Hiding" (ISH 05), which is part of the "International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications" (ICCSA 2005) [more...]
Published my Phd thesis as a book "Software and Hardware Implemenations of Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems", ISBN 3-86515-025-X [more...]