Novalst IT was founded in 2007 by Jerry Artishdad (owner and CEO of ARTEC IT Solutions AG), Nikolai Kuntze and Dr. Andreas U Schmidt. Novalyst IT is a private research facility for IT security. It offers research and development services, as well as technological and strategic consulting to clients of all sizes and from all sectors
After studying mathematics and physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Andreas U. Schmidt received his doctorate in mathematics in 1999 with a dissertation on mathematical physics. He changed his field of research and worked as a postdoc at the GMD Institute SIT in Darmstadt (now Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT) in 1999/2000. There he dealt with the problem of the unambiguous representation of digitally signed data and XML signatures. Andreas then received a two-year research grant from the German Research Foundation for projects in mathematical physics, which took him to Durban, South Africa in 2000/01 and to Pisa, Italy in 2001/02. After returning to Fraunhofer SIT, he worked as a project manager on various topics of applied and mobile IT security. In 2008/09 Andreas was Head of Security Research at the CREATE-NET Research Center in Trento, Italy. Together with Jerry Artishdad, he founded Novalyst IT AG in 2007 and has lead the company since then. More on his personal Homepage