Education
| 12/2023 - present | Doctoral Student
Doctoral Student in Cryptography Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Topics: Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions, Fully-adaptive Multi-Party Protocols, Low-Entropy-based Cryptography Supervisor: Dominique Schröder |
| 10/2021 - 09/2023 | Master of Science with Distinction
M.Sc. with Distinction in Computer Science Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Topics: Cryptography, Cyber Security, and IT-Forensics Grade: 1.0 (best degree of the semester) |
| 10/2017 - 05/2022 | Bachelor of Science with Distinction
B.Sc. with Distinction in Computer Science Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Topics: Cryptography Grade: 1.1 |
Work
Professional Experience
| 2023 - present | University Research Assistant Applied Cryptography Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2020 - 2021 | Student Employee Software Development in C# Siemens AG - Digital Industries Siemens AG |
| 2019 - 2020 | University Teaching Assistant System Programming I & II Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2018 | Student Employee Software Development in C# Siemens AG - Energy Management Siemens AG |
| 2014 | Student Internship Custom-Hardware Encryption Machine Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen |
Research Visits
| 08/2025 | Research Visit Prof. Stanislaw Jarecki UC Irvine, Irvine, CA |
Publications
| 2025 | Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited Ruben Baecker, Paul Gerhart, and Dominique Schröder ASIACRYPT |
| Universally Composable Password-Hardened Encryption Behzad Abdolmaleki, Ruben Baecker, Paul Gerhart, Mike Graf, Mojtaba Khalili, Daniel Rausch, and Dominique Schröder ASIACRYPT | |
| A Fully-Adaptive Threshold Partially-Oblivious PRF Ruben Baecker, Paul Gerhart, Daniel Rausch, and Dominique Schröder CRYPTO | |
| 2023 | Phoenix rises once again: How to defeat the (PW-)Hero Supervised by Dominique Schröder Master Thesis |
| 2022 | Securing Passwords against Offline Dictionary Attacks Supervised by Dominique Schröder Bachelor Thesis |
Awards and Scholarships
| 2024 | Jury Award at TechFak Science Slam (500€) Awarded for the slam "Password-Hardening - The Solution to the Password Problem" (in German) |
| 2024 | ASQF Best Thesis Award (500€) Awarded for the master thesis "Phoenix Rises Once Again: How to Defeat the (PW-)Hero" |
| 2020 - 2023 | German Academic Scholarship Foundation (300€ per Month) Awarded for outstanding academic potential (extended in 2021 and 2022) |
Teaching Activities
| Winter Term 25/26 | Cryptography in Secure Messaging Organizer Seminar |
| Summer Term 25 | Cryptography and Its Impact Organizer Seminar |
| Winter Term 24/25 | Cryptography in Secure Messaging Organizer Seminar |
| Summer Term 24 | Introduction to Algorithms (in German) Guest Lecturer Lecture |
Supervised Students
| 2025 | Tabea Stengl An Analysis of SecureDNA Bachelor Thesis |
| 2025 | Matthias Flosbach Parameter Selection for LWR-based PRFs Bachelor Thesis |
| 2025 | Maxim Grüninger Security Proof for a New saPAKE Construction Master Thesis |
Community Service
External Reviews (Selected)
| Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO) CRYPTO | 2024, 2025 |
| Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT) EUROCRYPT | 2024 |
| ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) CCS | 2024, 2025 |
| Public Key Cryptography (PKC) PKC | 2025 |
| European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) ESORICS | 2024, 2025 |
| IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) CSF | 2024 |