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-<p>I am a post-doctoral researcher in the <a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/">PDOS group</a> at <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT CSAIL</a> under the supervision of <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/kaashoek/" target="_blank">Frans Kaashoek</a> and <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/" target="_blank">Nickolai Zeldovich</a>.</p>
+<p>I am assistant professor at <a href='https://ethz.ch' target="_blank">ETH Zürich</a> as part of the <a href='https://pls.inf.ethz.ch/' target="_blank">Institute for Programming Languages and Systems</a>.</br>
+Previously, I completed my <a href="thesis.html">PhD</a> at <a href="https://www.mpi-sws.org/">MPI-SWS</a> and <a href="https://www.uni-saarland.de/" target="_blank">Saarland University</a> in Saarbrücken, Germany; my advisor was <a href="https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/">Derek Dreyer</a>.
+I also did a post-doc in the <a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/">PDOS group</a> at <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT CSAIL</a>.
+</p>
-<p>Previously, I completed my <a href="thesis.html">PhD</a> at <a href="https://www.mpi-sws.org/">MPI-SWS</a> and <a href="https://www.uni-saarland.de/" target="_blank">Saarland University</a> in Saarbrücken, Germany.</p>
+<p><i>If you are interested in doing a PhD or post-doc working on programming language foundations, and in particular formal foundations for Rust, or if you are an ETH student interested in a Master Thesis in that area -- please <a href="contact.html">reach out</a>!</i></p>
-<p>I am currently working on giving a formal model to <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust's</a> type system.
-This work is part of the <a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/">RustBelt</a> project. <br/>
-The Rust work builds on my previous work on <a href="https://iris-project.org/">Iris</a>, a logic to support modular reasoning about higher-order concurrent imperative programs. The focus there was on providing simple building blocks that are powerful enough to recover more sophisticated reasoning techniques that were often axiomatized in previous logics. <br/>
-For some more information, check out my <a href="https://www.ralfj.de/blog/categories/research.html">research blog</a> and my <a href="research-statement.pdf">research statement</a>.</p>
+<p>My two main lines of work are about <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a> and <a href="https://iris-project.org/">Iris</a>.<br>
+On the Rust side, I am working (also in collaboration with the Rust language team) towards a solid formal foundation for the language, including in particular the unsafe parts.
+One key result here is our <a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/">type safety proof</a>, which also describes a methodology for establishing type safety of well-encapsulated unsafe code.
+My goal is to make unsafe Rust just as safe as safe Rust by means of formal verification.<br>
+On the Iris side, besides continuing development of its logical foundations, I am interested in applying Iris to new problem domains; recently I started working on modular verification of fault-tolerant distributed system components.<br>
+For some more information, check out my <a href="https://www.ralfj.de/blog/categories/research.html">research blog</a>, my <a href="cv.pdf">CV</a>, and my <a href="research-statement.pdf">research statement</a>.</p>
<p>In my free time, I like to run internet services myself and work on free software.
This goes hand-in-hand with my pursuit of defending our privacy rights and our freedom in the digital world.
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