Steffen Becker is a Junior Research Group Leader at the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, where he leads the Human-Centered Hardware Security group. His research aims to enhance the transparency and trustworthiness of digital systems by integrating insights from hardware security, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction. Steffen's work centers on embedded security and the human factors that influence it, with research interests spanning hardware reverse engineering, obfuscation, and Trojans, as well as usable security and privacy. Previously, Steffen was a postdoctoral researcher at the CASA Cluster of Excellence and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. He completed his doctoral studies at Ruhr University Bochum in 2021, focusing on the human aspects of hardware reverse engineering.
