SecAppDev 2026 Faculty

Pieter Philippaerts

Research Manager, KU Leuven

Pieter is employed as a research manager at DistriNet, KU Leuven (BE). His main research interests lie in the field of software and web security. Pieter has worked on a range of topics, including software security policy enforcement on mobile devices, protecting native code from memory errors, and formal verification of source code. His current focus is on web and application security, with a particular interest in the security of (implementations of) authentication and authorization protocols.