About

I am an assistant professor at USI (Università della Svizzera italiana) where I do research in applied cryptography. Before I joined USI, I was a PhD student at ETH Zurich, advised by Kenny Paterson. I wrote my doctoral thesis on provable security for applied cryptography, focused on cloud storage security [1, 2, 3] and key derivation [4, 5, 6].

I am a co-founder and organizer of CAW, the Cryptographic Applications Workshop.

Before my PhD, I studied engineering mathematics at Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) in Sweden. I also worked with Mihir Bellare during an exchange at UCSD. I wrote my master thesis on puncturable symmetric key encapsulation mechanisms, supervised by Felix Günther.

In my free time, I like climbing and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Switzerland, trying new foods and learning languages, among other things!