Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen is a Professor of Practice (työelämäprofessori) and a Docent in Information Security and Cryptography at Tampere University (Finland). Markku has worked with cryptography and technical information security since the late 1990s, dividing time between academia and the security industry. Between 2018 and 2023, he architected some of the first commercially successful high-assurance PQC hardware modules at PQShield Ltd., Oxford. Markku currently Chairs the PQC Task Group at RISC-V International and serves as the Program Co-Chair of the PQCrypto 2025 conference. Markku holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London (2009).