Senior researcher at CWI and professor at Leiden University (MI)
Email: serge.fehr at cwi.nl
Website: http://www.cwi.nl/~fehr
Research line: Cryptography in a quantum world
Serge received his M.Sc. in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, and he obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Aarhus in Denmark on the topic of information-theoretic cryptography. After his graduation, he spent one year as a Postdoc Research Fellow at the computer science department of Macquarie University in Sydney. In 2004, he joined the Cryptology Group at CWI in Amsterdam, headed by Ronald Cramer, where he now holds a tenured Senior Researcher position. Serge also teaches regularly at the mathematical institute at Leiden University.
Serge’s primary field of interest is the mathematics of cryptology. One strong focus of his research is on understanding the possibilities and limitations of information-protecting techniques in the light of quantum mechanics, and on developing mathematical tools for capturing and studying concepts like ‘information’ and ‘computation’ in a quantum world.
Relevant publications:
Ivan Damgård, Serge Fehr, Louis Salvail, and Christian Schaffner. Secure Identification and QKD in the Bounded-Quantum-Storage Model. In Theoretical Computer Science, volume 560, part 1, pages 12-26, Theoretical Aspects of Quantum Cryptography – celebrating 30 years of BB84. Elsevier, 2014.
Martin Müller-Lennert, Frédéric Dupuis, Oleg Szehr, Serge Fehr, Marco Tomamichel. On quantum Rényi Entropies: A New Generalization and some Properties. In Journal of Mathematical Physics, volume 54, 122203. AIP Publishing, 2013.
Serge Fehr. Quantum Cryptography. In Foundations of Physics, volume 40, number 5, pages 494-531. Springer-Verlag, 2010.
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