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Postdocs / Researchers

• Hans Heum (Postdoc 2023-2026, hosted at the Department of Matemathical Sciences)
• Dan Zhang (Researcher 2025-2026, jointly hosted with Danilo Gligoroski)
• Javier Garcia Martinez (Researcher 2025, jointly hosted with Danilo Gligoroski)

PhD Students

• Caroline Sandsbråten (PhD 2022-, main supervisor)
• Emil August Hovd Olaisen (PhD 2022-, main supervisor)

Bachelor’s and Master’s Students

• Amund Fredrik Strømsnes - “Verifying the Swiss Electronic Voting System”
  (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Audhild Høgåsen)
• Jonatan Kifle Assefa Aalen - “Analysing a new devastating side-channel attack on elliptic curve cryptography”
  (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Caroline Sandsbråten and Jonathan Eriksen)
• Noah Krogh Anderson - “Deploying Messaging Layer Security in a Military UAV Swarm”
  (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
• Eirik Gjerde Buset - “Cryptographic Evidence in Norwegian Courts”
  (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Katrien De Moor)
• Harald Haaland Paaske - “Investigating the new post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism HQC”
  (Master’s thesis 2026, co-supervised with Emil August Hovd Olaisen)
• Michaela Kralova - “Post-Quantum Password-Authenticated Key Exchange” (Master’s thesis 2025)
• Paulina Wesolowska - “Quantum Computing and Cryptographic Risk: A Threat Assessment for the EU and Norway”
  (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Hans Heum)
• Noah Starckjohann - “Organizing cloud TEE-based applications for data from multiple parties”
  (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Xeni Kristine Dimakos and Li Chun Zhang)
• Henrik Hansen Stormyhr - “A comparative analysis of MOS-LQO algorithms for perceptual transparency testing in audio steganography” (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Bor de Kock and Emil August Hovd Olaisen)
• Javier García - “Threshold Signatures for FIDO Authentication”
  (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Trond Peder Hagen and Magnus Ringerud)
• Sunniva Engan - “Constructing Compressed Σ-Protocols from Different Underlying Assumptions”
  (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Kristian Gjøsteen)
• Emil Bragstad and Marius Andreas Arder - “Improving Messaging Layer Security in a Military UAV Swarm”
  (Master’s thesis 2025, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
• Carl Ludvig Digné - “Towards Quantum-Resilient Authentication: Implementing Hybrid Signatures in FIDO2 Authenticators”
  (Master’s thesis 2024, co-supervised with Trond Peder Hagen, Magnus Ringerud, and Sigurhjörtur Snorrason)
• Sondre Rishøi and Jonatan Såstad Østgaard - “Unbiased Distributed Key Generation”
  (Master’s thesis 2024, co-supervised with Audhild Høgåsen)
• Emil Marstrander - “Use of Messaging Layer Security in a Military UAV Swarm”
  (Master’s thesis 2023, co-supervised with Martin Strand)
• Matej Poljuha - “Benchmarking Post-Quantum Secure Biometric Resilient Authenticated Key Exchange”
  (Master’s thesis 2023, co-supervised with Pia Bauspiess)
• Audhild Høgåsen - “Return Codes from Lattice Assumptions” (Master’s thesis 2022)
• Alejandro Rodriguez - “Implementing Lattice-Based Cryptography” (Bachelor’s thesis 2022)
• Guro Rio Berge - “Cryptographic Protocols from Lattice Assumptions” (Bachelor’s thesis 2022)

Supervisors

I am grateful to Kristian Gjøsteen for supervising my Bachelor’s (2017), Master’s (2020), and PhD thesis (2022) and to Colin Boyd for co-supervising my PhD thesis. I am also grateful to Carsten Baum and Diego F. Aranha at Aarhus University and Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland for hosting and mentoring me during my PhD.

PhD Committees

• 2025: Simon Erfurth at University of Southern Denmark, supervised by Joan Boyar.

Visitors

• Scott Griffy, PhD student at Brown University (July and August 2024)
• Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Lecturer at King’s College London (May 2024)
• Vadim Lyubashevsky, Cryptography Researcher at IBM Research Europe (November 2023)
• Daniel Slamanig, Senior Scientist at Austrian Institute of Technology (May 2023)
• Anca Nitulescu, Researcher at Protocol Labs (May 2023, with Anamaria Costache)
• Katharina Boudgoust, Postdoc at Aarhus University (January 2023, with Anamaria Costache)
• Patrick Hough, PhD student at Oxford University (November 2022)
• Diego F. Aranha, Associate Professor at Aarhus University (August 2022)
• Akira Takahashi, Postdoc at Aarhus University (May 2022)

Research Visits

• Daniel Slamanig at University of the Bundeswehr Munich (June 2025)
• Jiaxin Pan at University of Kassel (June 2025)
• Xavier Boyen at Queensland University of Technology (April 2024, March and April 2025)
• Ngoc Khanh Nguyen at King’s College London (February 2025)
• Christian Majenz at DTU Compute (November 2023)
• Maribel G. Vasco, Dario Fiore and Ignacio Cascudo at IMDEA (September 2023, May 2025)
• Diego F. Aranha at Aarhus University (June 2023)
• Thomas Haines at the Australian National University (December 2022)
• Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland (October 2021 to February 2022)
• Carsten Baum and Diego F. Aranha at Aarhus University (August to December 2020)
• Carsten Baum at Aarhus University (November 2019)