bio

Jana Hofmann is a tenure-track faculty member at MPI-SP and leads the group for Foundations of Information Security and Trust. She develops techniques that create strong security and privacy guarantees in both hardware and software systems. Her recent work focuses on modeling, detecting, and preventing information leakage through microarchitectural side channels. Prior to joining MPI-SP, Jana was a postdoctoral researcher at Azure Research, Microsoft, where she worked on principled designs for side-channel protection. She completed her PhD at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Saarland University. Her thesis received the university’s Dr.-Eduard-Martin prize for the best computer science dissertation of the year.