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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

    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

      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