Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoctoral) in ERC project "Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy"

About this position

The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (

ENCRYPTO

) at the

Department of Computer Science

of the

Technical University of Darmstadt

offers a position as postdoctoral researcher for doing cutting edge research in applied cryptography and in particular secure computation. The full position is to be filled as soon as possible and initially for two years.

What we do

The mission of the ENCRYPTO group

is to demonstrate that privacy can be efficiently protected in real-world applications. For this, we bring theoretical results into practice by combining methods from cryptography with algorithm engineering. Our focus is on developing optimized cryptographic protocols, tools, and open-source software prototypes that efficiently protect sensitive data and functions in various applications.

See

encrypto.de/topics

for further information.

We offer an open, international working atmosphere and a strong team spirit, with the aim of enabling excellent research. TU Darmstadt is a top research university for

IT security and cryptography

and for

computer science

in Europe.

What this job is about

You will be working primarily in research within the ERC Consolidator Grant “Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy (

PRIVTOOLS

)”. In PRIVTOOLS, we develop composable protocols, optimizations, and tools to protect data and functions in applications. For this, we use and combine Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Private Function Evaluation (PFE), and Private Set Operations (PSO) such as Private Set Intersection (PSI) and Private Set Union (PSU).

As a postdoctoral researcher at ENCRYPTO, your tasks are project management, close collaboration with doctoral researchers and student assistants, research on design, optimization, implementation and evaluation of efficient cryptographic protocols and tools for their automatic generation, and publishing the results at top international venues in applied cryptography / IT security.

You will also actively contribute to the teaching activities of the ENCRYPTO group, in particular the integrated course “

Cryptographic Protocols

” and supervising

thesis students

.