Professor Martin Albrecht
Chair of Cryptography
Research interests
- Computer science
Contact details
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
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
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.
Research
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
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.