I am a post-doctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) under the supervision of Derek Dreyer, head of the Foundations of Programming group. -I am also a research affiliate of PDOS at MIT.
+I am assistant professor at ETH Zürich as part of the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems. +Previously, I completed my PhD at MPI-SWS and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany; my advisor was Derek Dreyer. +I also did a post-doc in the PDOS group at MIT CSAIL. +
-Previously, I completed my PhD thesis at MPI-SWS and Saarland University.
+I am offering up to two fully funded PhD positions in my newly founded research group at ETH Zürich, with flexible start date. +I am looking for strong students that want to do research at the foundations of programming language theory, in program verification and separation logic, with a focus on Rust and Iris. +Knowledge of Coq is greatly appreciated. Interested candidates can contact me directly. +Please explain why you are interested in a PhD in this field and what your prior experience is. Also include a CV and possible contacts for recommendation letters. +Note that doing a PhD at ETH Zürich generally requires a Master's degree, but there is a direct doctorate program that you can enter with a Bachelor's degree (application deadline December 15th).
-I am currently working on giving a formal model to Rust's type system.
-This work is part of the RustBelt project.
-The Rust work builds on my previous work on Iris, 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.
-For some more information, check out my research blog and my research statement.
My two main lines of work are about Rust and Iris.
+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 type safety proof, 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.
+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.
+For some more information, check out my research blog, my CV, and my research statement.
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.