Peter Schartner finished his studies in Telematik (a joint study of Computer Science, Electronics, and Communication Technology) in 1997 (Master Thesis: "Secure Desktop Conference System – A Client"). In 1996 he stayed at the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London – Information Security Group). In November 1997 he joined the System Security Group at Klagenfurt University. He finished his dissertation “Token-based Security Infrastructures – Selected Techniques and Applications” in 2001. In March 2012 he finished his Habilitation thesis ("Keymanagement und Identitätsschutz - Schlüsselaspekte sicherer und vertrauenswürdiger Systeme") and received the Venia Docendi in “Applied Informatics and System Security”. Since August 2012 he holds the Position of an Associate Professor at Klagenfurt University. Additionally he is Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Trier, since June 2004.Research areas: Keymanagement, smartcards, security aspects of mobile devices (especially personal digital assistants), network-security, security-infrastructures, and cryptography.Teaching activities: Practical lectures of mandatory subjects (like “Hardware-Architecture”, “Algorithms and Datastructures”, and “Theory of Computation”) and lectures concerning various aspects of security, including “Introduction to System-Security“, “System Security Lab”, ”Selected Topics of System-Security”, and “Applied Cryptography”.