Michael Schwarz

Michael Schwarz is a tenured faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbruecken, Germany, with a focus on microarchitectural side-channel attacks and system security. He obtained his PhD with the title "Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments" in 2019 from Graz University of Technology. He holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and one in software engineering with a strong focus on security. He was part of the discovery of multiple CPU vulnerabilities, including Meltdown, Spectre, LVI, PLATYPUS, ZombieLoad, ÆPIC Leak, CacheWarp, Collide+Power, and GhostWrite. He was also part of the KAISER patch, the basis for Meltdown countermeasures now deployed in every modern operating system under names such as KPTI or KVA Shadow.