Tim Music

Tim Music is a Researcher at the Chair of Security in Information Technology (Prof. Sigl) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He holds an M.Sc. degree and is based at Theresienstr. 90, 80333 Munich, Germany, with contact via tim.music@tum.de and office room 0101.Z1.010.

His research spans embedded security systems, fault attack methodologies, countermeasures against physical attacks, physically unclonable functions (PUFs), authentication protocols, ASIC design, and cryptographic implementations. He actively develops security frameworks for hardware-software co-design with emphasis on practical attack resistance and side-channel analysis mitigation.

Music leads the Smart Card Laboratory development, creating hands-on educational experiences where master students perform correlation power analysis and implement secure cryptographic systems. He supervises student research positions involving hardware assembly (smart cards, logic analyzers), PCB repair, firmware security enhancements, and automated evaluation tools using embedded C and Python.