I am an assistant professor (UD) at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. I'm a member of the Algorithms and Complexity group at CWI, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science. I collaborate with various people from QuSoft (such as Harry Buhrman, Ronald de Wolf and Serge Fehr).

My research interests are Quantum Cryptography, Cryptographic Protocols, and (Quantum) Information Theory.

I am currently looking for a postdoc in quantum cryptography.

I did my PhD in the Cryptology Group at BRICS, Computer Science Department of  Aarhus University. My PhD advisors were Louis Salvail and Ivan Damgård. Before that, I studied mathematics at ETH Zürich and wrote my Diploma thesis under supervision of Renato Renner and Ueli Maurer.
In 2015, I received a personal VIDI grant from Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

I am currently chairing steering-committee of the annual QCrypt conference, the 2016 edition has taken place in Washington, the 2017 edition will take place in Cambridge, UK. I have served on various program committees (CRYPTO 2017, TQC 2016, TQC 2015, EUROCRYPT 2015, QCRYPT 2014, SCN 2014, CRYPTO 2013, QCRYPT 2013, ICITS 2012, QIP 2012, QCRYPT 2011, ICITS 2011, WISSEC 2010 and the cryptography track of RSA 09). I was co-organizing a workshop on Cryptography from Storage Imperfections, held in March 2010 at Caltech.

I have been teaching various courses about cryptography and information theory at the University of Amsterdam. In Spring 2016, I had the positive experience of teaching my crypto course in fully-flipped-classroom style. Check this report to find out how it went.

In my spare time, I enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee.