Elisabeth Oswald

Maria Elisabeth Oswald is an Austrian cryptographer known for her work on side-channel attacks including power analysis and on implementations of cryptosystems that are resistant to these attacks.^[1] She is a professor at the University of Klagenfurt and at the University of Birmingham.^[2]

Elisabeth Oswald
Born	Wolfsberg, Carinthia
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	Graz University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography
Thesis	On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures  (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Reinhard Posch [de]

Education and career

Oswald is originally from Wolfsberg, Carinthia. She studied mathematics and information processing at the Graz University of Technology,^[3] completing her Ph.D. there in 2003 with the dissertation On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures supervised by Reinhard Posch [de].^[4]

She started working at the University of Bristol in 2006 as a lecturer, and later became Professor in Applied Cryptography there.^[5] She moved to Klagenfurt in 2019,^[3] describing herself as a "Brexit refugee".^[1] She continues to be affiliated with the University of Bristol as an Honorary Professor.^[6] Since 2023 she has taken up a professorial position at the University of Birmingham. ^[2]

Book

With Stefan Mangard and Thomas Popp, Oswald is a coauthor of the book Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smartcards (Springer, 2007).^[7]