Thomas Dullien holds a M.Sc. in mathematics, is advisor at the Wolfram Institute for Computational Foundations of Science, Researcher at the chair of Cryptography & IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, successful serial entrepreneur (e.g. Zynamics with an exit to Google and optimyze.cloud), and former software engineer at Google’s “Project Zero”. 2006 he was awarded the renowned German IT-Security Award, in 2015 he received the Pwnie Lifetime Achievement Award.
Since 2025 he, together with Gregor Jehle, is heading the Engineering project group at CNSS e.V.