As the Principal Security Advisor for UL in Frankfurt, Germany, Dr. Bauer has a Ph.D. in computer science and has more than 10 years of experience in the field of IT security. In particular, he has worked in both IoT and IIoT ecosystems. Dr. Bauer has expert knowledge of physical threats to embedded systems, both invasive and noninvasive, and he has published multiple papers on mitigation strategies to thwart such attacks. He has frequently led workshops on topics of applied cryptography and worked as a security consultant, guiding secure software design and development as well as practical threat and risk assessment.