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I am assistant professor at ETH Zürich as part of the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems.
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I am assistant professor at ETH Zürich, leading the Programming Language Foundations Lab. +We are 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.

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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.

+On the Rust side, me and my group are working (also in collaboration with the Rust language team) towards a solid formal foundation for the language, including in particular the unsafe parts. +As part of this we are developing Miri, a practical tool for detecting Undefined Behavior bugs in unsafe Rust code, which has become a part of the standard toolbox of unsafe code authors. +Meanwhile, MiniRust is our work-in-progress proposal for a precise specification of unsafe Rust, that I hope to integrate into an official Rust specification eventually. +My long-term goal is to make unsafe Rust just as safe as safe Rust by means of formal verification based on rigorous foundations for all key components of the language.
+On the Iris side, I am continuing development of its logical foundations. +We are making Iris fit for specifying and verifying programming languages at scale using a more modular approach. +The long-term goal is for Iris to be able to handle the full scale of complexities that arise when doing foundational verification of real languages.
+For some more information, check out my research blog and my CV.

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.