Václav (Vashek) Matyáš is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno, where he holds the position of Vice Dean for Industrial and Alumni Relations at the Faculty of Informatics. His research interests are related to applied cryptography and security; he has published well over 150 peer-reviewed papers and articles and has co-authored several books. He worked in the past with Red Hat Czech, CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University, as a Fulbright-Masaryk Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research on Computation and Society of Harvard University, Microsoft Research Cambridge, University College Dublin, Ubilab at UBS AG, and as a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow with the Cambridge University Computer Lab. Vashek also worked on the Common Criteria and in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27.