I am a cryptographer and security architect at Infineon Technologies, Germany. My work focuses on applied cryptography, cryptographic algorithm design and analysis, lightweight cryptography, and secure architectures for embedded and trusted systems. I bridge cryptographic theory and industrial practice, with an emphasis on translating advances in cryptographic research into efficient, deployable, and robust security solutions.
After receiving my Ph.D. in cryptography from Graz University of Technology in 2010, I joined KU Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher. I returned to Graz in 2012, where I coordinated cryptography research and teaching at IAIK. Since 2017, I have been working at Infineon Technologies.
I have authored nearly 100 scientific publications and contribute to several international standardization and collaborative research initiatives. My research contributions include the co-design of Ascon, selected by NIST as a standard for lightweight cryptography, and Grøstl, a finalist in the NIST SHA-3 competition. I am also a member of the SPHINCS+ team.
Editorial board
- Designs, Codes and Cryptography (2017-2022)
- IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (Co-Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2019)
- IET Information Security (2012-2019)
- J.UCS Journal of Universal Computer Science (2012-2022)
Program committee member
- 2023: CRYPTO, FSE, INSCRYPT, IWSEC, NSS
- 2022: CHES, FSE, IWSEC
- 2021: ASIACRYPT, CECC, IWSEC
- 2020: CECC, CRYPTO, FSE, IWSEC
- 2019: FSE, IWSEC, SECITC
- 2018: CECC, EUROCRYPT, ICISSP, INSCRYPT, ISC, IWSEC, SECITC
- 2017: EUROCRYPT, FSE, ICISC, ICISSP, INSCRYPT, IWSEC, SECITC
- 2016: ARCTICCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, CECC, FSE, ICISC, ICISSP, INDOCRYPT, INSCRYPT, IWSEC
- 2015: CECC, ICISC, ICISSP, INSCRYPT, SAC
- 2014: EUROCRYPT, FSE, ICISC, INSCRYPT
- 2013: FSE, ICISC, INSCRYPT
- 2012: ASIACRYPT, INSCRYPT
- 2011: CANS, ECRYPT II Hash Workshop
Journal refereeing
- Cryptography and Communications
- Cryptologia
- Designs, Codes and Cryptography
- Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications
- Frontiers of Computer Science
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals
- IET Information Security
- Information Processing Letters
- International Journal of Applied Cryptography
- International Journal of Computer Mathematics
- Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
- Journal of Cryptology
- Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
- Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation
- Journal of Systems and Software
- The Computer Journal
