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Martin Gwerder was born 20. July 1972 in Glarus, Switzerland. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Basel. 

After having concluded his studies at the polytechnic at Brugg in 1997, he did a postgraduate education as a master of business and engineering. Following that, he changed to the university track doing an MSc in Informatics at FernUniversit\"at in Hagen. 

While doing this, he steadily broadened his horizon by working for industry, banking, and government as an engineer and architect in security-related positions. 

He currently holds a lecturer position for cloud and security at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. His primary expertise is in the field of security-related problems dealing with data protection, distribution, confidentiality, and anonymity. 