NRF CREATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON
QUANTUM SECURITY AND RESILIENCE FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
QUASAR-CREATE is Building Trust for a Quantum-Enabled Future.
Quantum technologies will reshape how information is protected, exchanged and trusted. QUASAR-CREATE supports Singapore’s National Quantum Strategy by developing the security foundations required for this transition: open quantum-safe hardware, quantum communication security assessment, and post-quantum cryptographic migration for resilient systems and infrastructures. Through a Singapore–Germany research partnership, the programme turns quantum security from a future requirement into an engineering capability for today’s emerging technologies.
PROGRAMME PARTNERS
Supported by the National Research Foundation and NRF CREATE
RESEARCH THRUSTS
THRUST 1: HARDWARE
OPEN AND VERIFIABLE QUANTUM SAFE HARDWARE
Open Design Chips. Verifiable Trust. Quantum-Safe by Design - We develop an open and verifiable RISC-V processor platform as a future trust anchor for security-critical devices. By combining post-quantum cryptographic accelerators, side-channel-resistant hardware, secure key storage, and a hardened operating system, this thrust lays the foundation for transparent, quantum-safe hardware systems.
THRUST 2: ASSURANCE
QUANTUM SAFE COMMUNICATION ASSURANCE
Testing the Security and Trust Behind Quantum Communication and QKD - Quantum communication can only become critical infrastructure if its security can be tested, evaluated, and certified in practice. This thrust develops vendor-neutral methods, tools, and laboratory capabilities for QKD and quantum communication security - bridging theoretical security proofs, real-world component imperfections, attack analysis, countermeasures, and future certification pathways.
THRUST 3: MIGRATION
QUANTUM SAFE MIGRATION AND AGILITY
From Today's Infrastructure to Tomorrow's Quantum-Safe Systems - Migrating to post-quantum security is more than replacing algorithms. This thrust creates practical blueprints, migration models, digital testing environments, and cryptographic agility concepts to help complex infrastructures move toward quantum-safe operation. It also explores hybrid PQC/QKD solutions for emerging 5G/6G systems and supports skills training for the next generation of quantum security experts.
OUR TEAM
LAM KWOK YAN
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
GEORG SIGL
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Technical University Munich (TUM)
HARALD KUHN
Professor, Programme Lead-PI
Fraunhofer ENAS, TU Chemnitz
MICHAEL KASPER
Professor, Principal Investigator, Director Fraunhofer Singapore
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
ULF SCHLICHTMANN
Professor, Principal Investigator
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
MICHAEL PEHL
Professor, Principal Investigator
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
DANIEL LOEBENBERGER
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer AISEC, University Amberg-Weiden
MARC STÖTTINGER
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer ENAS, HSRM Rhein Main Wiesbaden
ALEXANDER WEISS
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer ENAS, TU Chemnitz
THOMAS MAGEDANZ
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer FOKUS, TU Berlin
RUBEN NIEDERHAGEN
Professor, Principal Investigator
Fraunhofer Singapore, Academica Sinica
ZHIDAN ZHANG
Coordinator, Thrust 1
TUM CREATE
CHRISTIAN KURTISIEFER
Professor, Principal Investigator
National University Singapore (NUS)
MARCO TOMAMICHL
Professor, Principal Investigator
National University Singapore (NUS)
GAN CHEE LIP
Professor, Principal Investigator
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
ZHANG TIANWEI
Professor, Principal Investigator
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
ELIAS X HUBER
Coordinator, Thrust 2
Fraunhofer Singapore, NTU
CONTACT US
QUASAR-CREATE PROGRAMME
eMail: contact@quasar-create.sg
Location: 1 Create Way
Singapore, 138602