Dr Helena Helena Handschuh Handschuh is a Technical Board Advisor to security start-ups. Her expertise encompasses hardware security technologies, crypto and post-quantum crypto, side-channel attacks and countermeasures, security architecture and security standardisation.

She was chairwoman of the RISC V Security Committee for several years. She was formerly a Research Fellow at Rambus Inc., a Technical Director at Cryptography Research, Inc., and Chief Technology Officer at Intrinsic-ID. Prior to that she managed the Applied Cryptography and Security Group at Gemplus (now part of Thales). She has been a volunteer Research Fellow at KU Leuven for over a decade. She was a member of the ETSI-SAGE Security Algorithms Group of Experts for tenyears and served as an elected Officer of the IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research. She has authored 50+ peer-reviewed papers and holds 25 patents in the areas of security and cryptography.