I am a tenured assistant professor in the Applied and Provable Security group at TU Eindhoven. My research focuses on mitigating the threat posed by quantum computers to how we communicate sensitive data. (Wiring money, transmitting sensitive information like medical data or company/governmental/military secrets, Whatsapp, …) My main focus is on cryptography that can be used already on today’s computers, but withstands even quantum attacks. (‘post-quantum security’). One achievement I’m very exited about is that my research contributed to the theoretical groundwork for Kyber, an emerging NIST standard for public-key encryption.

I currently hold a personal Veni grant from NWO, an Irène Curie Fellowship, and am co-supervising a doctoral student as part of the MSCA doctoral training network “Quantum-Safe Internet”, together with Andreas Hülsing.

My methods combine techniques from provable security with developing new theoretical tools based in quantum information theory. To learn more about my research, take a look at my publications and talks.

Before joining TU/e, I completed my PhD in the Cryptology group at Bochum’s gorgeous Ruhr University, supervised by Eike Kiltz and partially funded by the Prometheus project. Before that, I studied Mathematics at University Duisburg Essen and completed a three-year training as mathematical-technical system engineer at RWTH Aachen.

You can also follow me on Twitter: quantum_bat.