Students & researchers

Doctoral supervision and postdoctoral research.

Doctoral students

2023 – present

Julian Thomas

Formalizations of privacy-enhancing cryptographic primitives

2022 – present

Paul Gerhart

Fair exchange, optimized Blockchain protocols and privacy

2021 – present

Hien Chu

Privacy-preserving techniques, threshold cryptography

Graduated doctoral students

2018 – 2023

Victoria Ronge

Security and Privacy of Cryptocurrency Signatures

First position after PhD: Industry

Current position: Industry

2017 – 2023

Dominic Deuber

Cryptocurrencies Within The Conflicting Tension Between Law and IT Security

First position after PhD: Postdoc at FAU

Current position: Industry

2017 – 2022

Russel W. F. Lai

Succinct Arguments: Constructions and Applications

First position after PhD: Assistant Professor at Aalto University

Current position: Assistant Professor at Aalto University

2016 – 2022

Christoph Egger

On Abstraction and Modularization in Protocol Analysis

First position after PhD: Researcher at Institut de Recherche en Inf. Fondamentale

Current position: Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology

2016 – 2021

Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan

Cryptographic Locks for Scriptless Cryptocurrency Payments

First position after PhD: Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University

Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Sydney

2013 – 2019

Guilio Malavolta

Cryptographic Clocks and Applications

First position after PhD: UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University

Current position: Assistant Professor Bocconi University

2015 – 2019

Oliver Willers

MEMS Sensors As Physical Unclonable Functions

First position after PhD: Bosch

Current position: Bosch

2014 – 2019

Tim Ruffing

Cryptography for Bitcoin and Friends

First position after PhD: Blockstream

Current position: Blockstream

2012 – 2016

Nils Fleischhacker

Minimal Assumptions in Cryptography

First position after PhD: Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University

Current position: Assistant Professor at Ruhr University Bochum

Postdoctoral researchers

03/2023 – 06/2024

Dominic Deuber

Next position: IT security expert at the German Accreditation Body

09/2022 – 09/2023

Mojtaba Khalili

Next position: Assistant Professor, Isfahan University of Technology

11/2016 – 11/2018

Bernardo Magri

Next position: Associate Professor at the University of Manchester, UK.