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Current members at the Selmer Center

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Faculty Members

Professors/Associate Professors

Øvyind
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Øyvind Ytrehus (Professor, Contact Person for the Selmer Center) 

Research interests: coding theory, cryptology

 

Lilya Budaghyan

Lilya Budaghyan (Professor, Dr. habil.)

Group Leader for Mathematical Methods of Cryptography

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions and, more generally, discrete structures in mathematics and information theory

Tor

Tor Helleseth (Prof. Emeritus) 

Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, sequences, and discrete mathematics

Nikolay

Nikolay Stoyanov Kaleyski (Associate Professor) 

Group Leader for Algorithmic and Computational Methods

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions, algorithms 

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Oleksandr Kholosha (Permant Scientist)

Group Leader for Cyber Security

Research interests: cryptography and network security

Chunlei

Chunlei Li (Professor) 

Group Leader for Reliable Communications

Research interests: cryptography, coding theory, signal design, cybersecurity, and discrete mathematics

Igor

Igor A. Semaev (Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from Russia) 

Group Leader for Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

Research interests: applications of number theory, algebra, and mathematical statistics in cryptanalysis

Adjunct Professors/Consultants

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Lejla Batina (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Radboud University, The Netherlands) 

Research interests: applied cryptography and embedded systems security

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Stjepan Pieck (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: Radboud University, The Netherlands) 

Research interests: cybersecurity and artificial intelligence

Vincent

Vincent Rijmen (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: KU LEUVEN) 

Research interests: design and cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptography primitives (block ciphers, hash functions, MACs, stream ciphers); and the underlying mathematical theories for them

Sondre

Sondre Rønjom (Adjunct Professor, Main affiliation: The Norwegian National Security Authority

Research interests: cryptology, discrete mathematics, computational algorithms

Postdocs and Researchers

Ermes Franch
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Ermes Franch

Research interests: coding theory, cryptography, and artificial intelligence

Gorka Abad

Research interests: cybersecurity and trustworthy AI 

PhDs 

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Samuele Andreoli

Research interests: cryptography and cryptographic Boolean functions

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Dian Li 

Research interests: Sequences and Cryptography

Nadiia Ichanska
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Nadiia Ichanska 

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions

Martin Feussner
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Martin Feussner

Research interests: cryptography

Arne Sandrib

Research interests: zero-knowledge proof 

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Joakim Hauger Sunde

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions

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Irene Di Muzio

Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis (with the main focus on Gröbner Basis)

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Martin Grenouilloux

Research interests: cryptography and cryptanalysis

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Emre Balci

Research interests: blockchain, zero-knowledge proof

 

Niki Spithaki

Research interests: cryptographic Boolean functions