Dr. Martin Salfer is an IT security researcher at TUM and a tech lead at an automaker. He earned his Ph.D. in IT Security from TUM, completed his M.Sc. with honours in Software Engineering at UniA/LMU/TUM, and obtained his B.Sc. in Computer Science from HM, with a study abroad at KPU in Vancouver, Canada, and ESIEA in Paris, France, and a research visit at NII in Tokyo, Japan. He is the lead author of 28 publications, including five IT security patents.