Daniel Slamanig

Daniel Slamanig

Full Professor of Cryptology

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Academic Profile

I am a Full Professor of Cryptology at the Universität der Bundeswehr München in its Department of Computer Science and Research Institute Cyber Defence (CODE), where I head the Quantum Safe & Advanced Cryptography (QuSAC) Lab. My research interests cover a broad range of topics in cryptography. I am particularly interested in the design of provably secure and practical public key cryptographic primitives and privacy-enhancing protocols, their foundations and their application to provide strong security and privacy guarantees considering current rapid technological developments. Before joining the Universität der Bundeswehr München I was a Scientist (2017-2023) and then Senior Scientist (2023) in the cryptography group at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, Austria as well as a Lecturer at TU Wien. Even before that I held a Senior Researcher position (2015-2017) and a Postdoc position (2012-2015) in the crypto group at IAIK (now ISEC), Graz University of Technology. I hold a PhD degree (Dr.techn.) in computer science from University of Klagenfurt, which I have obtained in 2011 (with distinction). I am a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG).

I am one of the designers of the Picnic family of post-quantum digital signature schemes (see also here), a scheme that made it to the final round (alternate candidate) in NIST's initial post-quantum crypto standardization project.

Program Committees: ACNS (2027, 2024), AfricaCrypt 2027, EUROCRYPT (2027, 2026, 2023), PETS (2027, 2026), ACM CCS (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), CANS 2026, IFIP SEC (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018), APKC (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018), ASIACRYPT (2025, 2021), LATINCRYPT 2025, PKC 2025, ACISP (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022), CECC (2025, 2024, 2023), CRYPTO 2024, EAI CESS 2023, ICISSP (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), IEEE CSR (2023, 2022, 2021), ISC 2023, IWSEC (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), ProvSec (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020), ICISC (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019), SBC 2020, DSC 2019, IFIP Summer School (2019, 2018 (PC Co-Chair), 2017, 2016, 2015), MACIS 2019 (PC Co-Chair), SCC (2019, 2017, 2016, 2015), SAC 2017, SECPID (2017, 2016 (Co-Chair))

External Reviews: PKC 2027, PKC 2026, CRYPTO 2025, CHES 2025, MFCS 2024, EUROCRYPT 2024, CANS 2023, Pacific Graphics 2023, ASIACRYPT 2023, CRYPTO 2023, ESORICS 2023, CRYPTO 2022, EUROCRYPT 2022, PKC 2022, EUROCRYPT 2021, ASIACRYPT 2020, ESORICS 2020, ACM CCS 2020, PKC 2020, FC 2020, NDSS 2020, SSR 2019, IMACC 2019, CANS 2018, PKC 2018, EuroS&P 2018, ASIACRYPT 2017, PQCrypto 2017, EUROCRYPT 2017, CT-RSA 2016, CRYPTO 2016, SAC 2016, SCN 2016, ASIACRYPT 2016, EUROCRYPT 2015, ARES 2015, SSR 2015, ICISC 2015, EUROCRYPT 2014, ASIACRYPT 2014, ISC 2014, EuroPKI 2012

Evaluator and Reviewer for Science Funds: European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 2026; ERC Advanced Grant 2020), Horizon Europe (HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01, Cyber Security), Horizon 2020 (H2020-SU-ICT-2018-2020, Building blocks for resilience in evolving ICT systems), Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Dutch Research Council (NWO), French National Research Agency (ANR), German Research Foundation (DFG).

Journal Editorial Boards

Journal Reviews (selected; full list): ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, Computers & Security, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Distributed Ledger Technologies, IEEE Access, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE TCC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNSM, IEICE Transactions, IET Information Security, Int. J. Information Security, Journal of Computer Security, Journal of Cryptology, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Journal of Systems and Software, The Computer Journal

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