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Biography: Herbert Bos is full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-leads the VUSec Systems Security research group with Cristiano Giuffrida, Erik van der Kouwe, Bala Chandrasekaran and Klaus von Gleissenthall. In 2023, he was appointed by royal degree to membership of the Electoral Council (founded 1917), the central authority and advisory body for Dutch elections. Later that same year, he was appointed to membership of the Cyber Security Council (CSR), a national, independent advisory body of the Dutch government and the business community (through the government) composed of high-ranking representatives from public and private sector organisations and the scientific community.
He obtained an ERC Starting Grant to work on reverse engineering and an NWO VICI grant to work on vulnerability detection. In 2024, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for research on detecting, analysing and mitigation transient execution attacks (such as Spectre, Meltdown and MDS) and an NWO Gravitation Grant for building a secure foundation for computer systems. These and other systems security topics are still close to his heart. Other research interests include OS design, microarchitectural attacks and defenses, fuzzing, exploitation, networking, and dependable systems.