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Andreas U. Schmidt is Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt, Germany. After studying mathematics and physics at the University Frankfurt, Germany, he received his doctorate in mathematical physics in 1999. Research stays led him to Durban, South Africa, and Pisa.

In his 8 years at SIT, Andreas worked on a broad spectrum of subjects ranging from electronic signatures and long-term security of digital documents to information economy and market models for digital goods. His current interests focus on the creation and mediation of trust between technical systems and humans in mobile situations. Andreas is an active member of the Trusted Computing Group, published numerous research papers on TC, is a co-inventor on some patents in communication security. He initiated EU FP7 projects and is currently work package leader in the Strategic Research Project NanoDataCenters. More information is found on his personal homepage andreas.schmidt.novalyst.de