Full CV (please contact me directly for an up-to-date version)

• ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award (2025)
• ERC Starting Grant (2023)
• EUROCRYPT Best Paper Award (2021)

• October 2025 - Present: Professor and Head of Chair for Distributed Cryptography, Faculty for Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

• March 2025-Present: Researcher, Common Prefix (Blockchain Company)

• September 2024-September 2025: Faculty (with Tenure), CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

• October 2021-August 2024: Faculty (Tenure-Track), CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

• June 2021 – August 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Host: Elaine Shi

• November 2019 – May 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, USA; Host: Jonathan Katz

• June 2018- September 2021: Researcher, Spacemesh (Blockchain Company)

• September 2016 – July 2019: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; Advisor: Eike Kiltz

• March 2015 – April 2016: MSc in Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

• September 2011 – February 2015: BSc in Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Committee Service: PKC 2026, ASIACRYPT 2025, CCS 2025, EUROCRYPT 2025, DISC 2024, CCS 2024, PKC 2024, CCS 2023, CRYPTO 2023, TCC 2022, CCS 2022, ITC 2022, CCS 2021, EUROCRYPT 2021