From September 2004 till August 2005, I was affiliated with the Information Security and Cryptography Group at the Computer Science Department of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH Zurich). This visit was mainly funded by the Emmy Noether fellowship (Phase I) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and partly by ETH Zurich.

From September 2003 till August 2004, I visited the Cryptography Group at the Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE), University of California, San Diego (UCSD). This visit was funded by the Emmy Noether Programme.

Form June 2002 till August 2003, I worked at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), formerly known as Institute for Secure Telecooperation, Department of Security and Smartcard Technology (SICA).There I was mainly involved in industry-related security projects.

From 1997 till April 2002 (suspended due to community service in 1998) I worked as a research assistant and Ph.D. student at Prof. Schnorr's group at the University of Frankfurt. My research during that time mainly dealt with the design of efficient and provably secure cryptographic protocols. I completed my Ph.D. in December 2001 with grade "summa cum laude". The title of my thesis was "Trapdoor Commitment Schemes and Their Applications".

From 1992 till 1997 and 1998, respectively, I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, obtaining diplomas in both subjects. My theses, under supervision of Prof. Schnorr, both dealt with cryptography: one with incremental cryptography, the other one with fair exchange of digital signatures.

>	Emmy Noether Programme  German Research Foundation (DFG)
>	Information Security and Crypto Group  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
>	Crypto Group  University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
>	Institute for Secure Information Technology  Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
>	Computer Science Department  Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
>	Math Department  Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany

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