International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Multiple PhD positions are available at the Cybersecurity and Applied cryptography research group at the Institute of Computer Science, at the University of St. Gallen, led by Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa. https://cybersecurity.unisg.ch The positions are available to start in the beginning of 2023, and are funded with a competitive salary. The workplace is in the beautiful city of St. Gallen located 50 min away from Zurich and offers a very high quality of life. The selection process runs until suitable candidates have been found. The student is expected to work on topics that include security and privacy issues in biometric authentication. More precisely, the student will be working on investigating efficient and privacy-preserving authentication that provides: i) provable security, and ii) rigorous privacy guarantees.
Key Responsibilities:

• Perform exciting and challenging research in the domain of information security and cryptography
• Support and assist in teaching computer security and cryptography courses

Your Profile:

• The PhD student is expected to have a MSc degree or equivalent, and strong background in cryptography, network security and mathematics
• Experience in one or more domains such as cryptography, design of protocols, secure multi-party computation and differential privacy is beneficial
• Excellent programming skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Deadline: 31 Oct. 2022

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Katerina Mitrokotsa

More information: https://jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stellen/funded-phd-student-in-applied-cryptography-privacy-preserving-biometric-authentication-m-f-d/e7a9e90b-02cd-45d0-ad4f-fc02131eaf86