He holds a doctorate degree (Dr.rer.nat.) and diploma in informatics (Dipl.-Inf.) from Ulm University, Germany. For more than five years, he has been actively involved in research on security and privacy of intelligent transportation systems, and especially V2X communication through pan-European projects like SeVeCom (FP6) and PRECIOSA (FP7). He also contributes to standardization and deployment preparation of such systems, e.g., in the Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (C2C-CC) and ETSI.