Benjamin Dowling is a Senior Lecturer in Cryptography in the Department of Informatics, King's College London. Joining King's in August 2024, he was previously a Lecturer of Cybersecurity in the Security of Advanced Systems Research group at the University of Sheffield. Benjamin held postdoctoral researcher positions at the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zurich, and at the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London with Kenny Paterson. He received his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology under the supervision of Douglas Stebila, which focused primarily on the provable security of internet protocols.

Research interests

• Real-world cryptography
• Provable security
• Key exchange
• Secure messaging
• Post-quantum protocols