Ueli Maurer

Ueli Maurer is professor of computer science and head of the Information Security and Cryptography Research Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. His research interests include information security, theory of cryptography (new paradigms, security proofs), applications of cryptography (e.g. digital signatures, public-key infrastructures, digital payment systems, e-voting), theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and information theory. He is also interested in the impact of IT on the society and economy at large.

Maurer graduated in electrical engineering (1985) and received his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences (1990) from ETH Zurich. From 1990 to 1991 he was DIMACS research fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, and in 1992 he joined the CS Department at ETH Zurich where he is a full professor.

He has served extensively as an editor and a member of program committees. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, Editor-in-Chief (with Ronald Rivest) of Springer Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He also served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 1996 he co-founded the annual Zurich Symposium on Privacy and Security (SPS). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was the 2000 Rademacher Lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a frequent invited speaker at scientific conferences.

Maurer has served as a consultant for many companies and government organisations, both at the management and the technical level. He serves on a few boards, including the board of directors of Tamedia, a Swiss media company, and the scientific advisory board of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a co-founder of the Zurich-based security software company Seclutions and holds several patents for cryptographic systems. He is interviewed frequently by the media.

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