Johannes Willbold

Co-Founder and CEO

Johannes Willbold is co-founder and CEO of Variant Security and holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum. His doctoral research on the security of satellite flight software was published twice at IEEE S&P, received a Distinguished Paper Award and was featured in WIRED, and he founded the SpaceSec Workshop at NDSS, the first academic venue dedicated to space cybersecurity. He has presented his work at Black Hat USA, DEF CON, ESA and NASA JPL.