I look forward to welcoming you to our Cybersecurity group and introducing you to our research at the University of St. Gallen, located in a historic city in eastern Switzerland.

If you are passionate about information security and cryptography, we would be delighted to receive your application.

The position offers the opportunity to design and analyze cryptographic protocols with provable security guarantees, focusing on efficiency and scalability in real-world deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research in applied cryptography and information security.
• Contribute to the development of secure and privacy-preservingContribute to the development of secure and privacy-preserving protocols.
• Support and assist in teaching courses on computer security and cryptography.

• The PhD student is expected to have a MSc degree or equivalent, and strong background in cryptography, network security and mathematics.
• We welcome candidates with strong foundations in cryptography and an interest in provable security, MPC, and privacy-preserving computation. Prior experience in protocol design or secure computation is a plus.
• Strong programming skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The research group for Cybersecurity & Applied Cryptography Research Group, https://cybersecurity.unisg.ch/, is a part of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) at the University of St. Gallen. The group was established in autumn semester 2020 and is led by Prof. Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa. Our research interests are centered around information security and applied cryptography, with the larger goal of safeguarding communications and providing strong privacy guarantees. We are currently active in multiple areas including the design of provably secure cryptographic protocols and cryptographic primitives that can be employed for reliable authentication, outsourcing computations in cloud-assisted settings, network security problems as well as secure and privacy-preserving machine learning. As a doctoral student you will be a part of the Doctoral School of Computer Science (DCS), https://dcs.unisg.ch.

If you are excited about building cryptographic solutions that combine rigorous security proofs with practical efficiency, we would love to hear from you.