Dr. Piedad Brox

Piedad Brox, born in 1979, holds a Doctor of Science in Microelectronics (with honors) from the University of Seville (Spain, 2009). She obtained two post-doctoral fellowships funded by the Spanish Government and University of Seville. She has belonged to the Digital and Mixed Integrated Circuits Design (UDDM) group since 2002, and she became a Tenured Scientist in 2018 at the IMSE (CSIC/University of Seville). Her experience during these years in the design of digital integrated circuits for different application purposes has been applied in the area of hardware security more recently (last seven years). Her expertise in this area includes scientific works with PUFs extracted from SRAMs implemented on several CMOS integration technologies, the VLSI realization of trusted virtual sensors, using lightweight authenticated ciphers, and the acceleration of Post-Quantum cryptographic algorithms with hardware/software implementations on Systems-on-Chip (SoC). She is the coordinator of two ongoing projects (SPIRS funded by the European Commission and ARES funded by the Spanish Government). She has published more than 80 papers, has supervised three PhD theses, and has one US patent licensed by a company.