Paul Staat

Paul Staat

Postdoctoral researcher in the Embedded Security (EMSEC) group led by Prof. Christof Paar at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum, Germany. Focused on wireless physical-layer security.

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant for “Einführung in die Kryptographie 1” (winter terms 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2024/25)
  • Teaching assistant for “Einführung in die Kryptographie 2” (summer terms 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Contribution of exercises and lecture material on digital signal processing and channel state information to “Wireless Physical-Layer Security”
  • Seminar supervision in 2019 and 2020.
  • Supervision of bachelor and master theses as well as research interns.

Supervised Theses

Masters’s Theses

  • Raphael Sütterlin, “Evaluation of Challenge Mechanisms for Radio-Wave-Based Physical Zero-Knowledge Proofs”, Master’s Thesis, 2022 (co-supervised with Johannes Tobisch)
  • Tobias Petrausch, “Analysis of Metamaterials for Radio-Based Virtual Proofs of Reality”, Master’s Thesis (co-supervised with Johannes Tobisch), 2022
  • Daniel Becker, “Quality Assessment and Comparative Analysis of RF Channel Measurement Systems for Tamper Detection Applications”, Master’s Thesis, 2021
  • Simon Mulzer, “Adversarial Wireless Sensing: Refined Wi-Fi Attacks and Countermeasures Based on Smart Surfaces”, Master’s Thesis, 2021
  • Florian Wimmers, “Hardware Tamper Protection: Fundamentals, State of the Art, Challenges, and New Approaches”, Master’s Thesis, 2021
  • Philipp Stamm, “Machine Learning Assisted Integrity Assessment of Edge Servers based on Radio Channel Characteristics”, Master’s Thesis, 2021
  • Marian Hug, “Radio-Wave Propagation meets Machine Learning for Physical-Layer Remote Attestation”, Master’s Thesis, 2020

Bachelor’s Theses

  • Maximilian Andersen, “Implementation and Evaluation of Beamforming Feedback Side-Channel Attacks for Keystroke Inference on Smartphones”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2024
  • Daniel Davidovich, “Conceptual Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Radio-Wave Based Covert Channels on Embedded Systems”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2023
  • Jan Nold, “Wireless Sensing for Supply Chain Protection in Hostile Environments”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2021
  • Lars Steinschulte, “Physical Intrusion Detection and Localization with Ultra Wideband Communications”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2020
  • Malte Springborn, “Evaluation of Bluetooth Radio Transceivers for Applications in Physical Layer Security”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2020
  • Simon Mulzer, “Implementation of a WiFi-PHY Analysis Framework for Keystroke Recognition Attacks”, Bachelor’s Thesis, 2019 (co-supervised with Christian Zenger)