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Martin Albrecht

Professor Martin Albrecht

Chair of Cryptography

Research interests

  • Computer science

Biography

Martin Albrecht is a Professor of Cybersecurity and Chair of Cryptography in the Department of Informatics at King's College London.

Martin obtained his PhD at Royal Holloway under the supervision of Carlos Cid. He then went on to work as a postdoc with Jean-Charles Faugère (LIP6, Paris, France), Gregor Leander (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark) and Kenny Paterson (RHUL, Egham, UK). His Erdős–Bacon Number is 6.

Research interests

  • Lattice-based cryptography
  • Post-quantum cryptography
  • Applied cryptography
  • Social foundations of cryptography and information security
  • Computational mathematics

Further information

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Research

Security
Cybersecurity

The group studies design, modelling, analysis, verification and testing of networks and systems.

News

Team of researchers awarded highly prestigious prize for work revealing security vulnerabilities in popular chat platform

The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy presented the team with a distinguished paper award – given to only around 1% of submissions

Cybersecurity

Major project to advance encryption technology in the face of future threats receives European funding

Professor Martin Albrecht will develop algorithms to protect advanced data encryption against future quantum computers.

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The publication feed is not currently available.

Research

Security
Cybersecurity

The group studies design, modelling, analysis, verification and testing of networks and systems.

News

Team of researchers awarded highly prestigious prize for work revealing security vulnerabilities in popular chat platform

The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy presented the team with a distinguished paper award – given to only around 1% of submissions

Cybersecurity

Major project to advance encryption technology in the face of future threats receives European funding

Professor Martin Albrecht will develop algorithms to protect advanced data encryption against future quantum computers.

An image of computer code stretching out as far as the eye can see with a purple filter over it to represent the Informatics department