Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen
PQShield
Staff Cryptography Architect
Oxford, UK
Dr. Saarinen is a Staff Cryptography Architect at PQShield (Oxford, UK) and a Professor of Practice at Tampere University (Finland). Markku has worked as a cryptographer and security engineer for over 25 years. He joined PQShield at its inception as a University of Oxford spin-out in 2018. At PQShield, he designed some of the first successful Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) hardware modules. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London (2009).