Berna Örs received the Electronics & Communication Engineering degree and the MSc degree in 1995 and 1998, respectively, both from the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. She received the Electrical Engineering degree in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2005. Currently, she is a Professor at ITU. Her main research interests include cryptography, embedded systems, and side-channel attacks.