Alexander Würstlein

Alexander Würstlein is a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science 4 (Distributed Systems and Operating Systems) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He specializes in security protocols, hardware security, and operating systems.

Education details are not explicitly provided in the text, though his academic background is reflected through his research and thesis work.

His research focuses on cryptographic systems and hardware-based security solutions. Key contributions include work on identity-based encryption (T-IBE-T) and hardware-level RAM encryption (Exzess). These publications address vulnerabilities in distributed systems and physical memory exposure.

No scientific awards are mentioned. He has supervised his own theses, including Design and Implementation of a Transparent Memory Encryption and Transformation System (2012) and Automatic Translation from Binary Object Files to Hardware Description Languages (2011). Teaching roles include leading the Praktikum angewandte Systemsoftwaretechnik (PASST) across multiple semesters from 2013 to 2018.

He is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science 4 and contributes to the CS 4 research team at FAU.