Biography

I’m a cryptographer at Horizen Labs in the area of efficient zero-knowledge proof systems. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Graz University of Technology, working at the IAIK. My research interests include the design and analysis of symmetric primitives and the application in modern zero-knowledge proof systems such as STARKs and SNARKs. In this context, I was also working on arithmetization-oriented hash functions including Poseidon and Griffin, which are both specifically tailored towards modern zero-knowledge use cases.