Faculty
2021: ERC Starting Grant for Project "Next Generation Laconic Cryptography (LACONIC)"
2017: Best Paper Award at Crypto for the work Identity-Based Encryption from the Diffie-Hellman Assumption.
2016: Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), e55418.
2015: Best Paper Award at ProvSec 2015 for the work From Stateful Hardware to Resettable Hardware Using Symmetric Assumptions.
2014: Biennial dissertation award for the best dissertation in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the years 2014 and 2015 by the Erika and Dr. Wolfgang Eichelbeger foundation.
Dr. Nico Döttling is a faculty at CISPA. The focus of his research is public key encryption, communication-efficient secure multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption.
From 2017 to 2018 Nico was assistant professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg. Prior to that, he was a postdoc in the group of Sanjam Garg at UC Berkeley, supported by a DAAD fellowship from 2016 to 2017 and a postdoc in the crypto group of Aarhus University, working with Ivan Damgård and Jesper Buus Nielsen form 2014 to 2016. Nico finished his PhD in 2014 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology under the supervision of Jörn Müller-Quade.
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC)
International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC)
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques (EuroCrypt)
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS)
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO)