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 of 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: TCC 2026, CRYPTO 2026, 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