Brief CV
Stefan Lucks’ areas of research are cryptology and communications security. He obtained a degree in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund in 1993. In 1997, he obtained his PhD from the University of Göttingen and moved to the University of Mannheim, where he completed his habilitation in 2003, was appointed senior lecturer in 2004, and headed the security research team within the Mobile Business Research Group at the University of Mannheim. In 2007, he became a full professor of Media Security at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on cryptology and has served on numerous international programme committees, including those for AES, SAC, FSE and Eurocrypt. He was a co-organiser of the Western European Workshop on Cryptography (WeWORC) in 2005 and 2007 and of the Dagstuhl seminar on Symmetric Cryptography in 2007 and 2009.
Research interests
Design and analysis of fundamental cryptographic algorithms, with a focus on symmetric cryptography (block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, etc.).
Composition of complex cryptosystems and security protocols from fundamental cryptographic algorithms, in particular formal security proofs for composed cryptosystems.
Implementation of cryptographic algorithms and security protocols.
- Application of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for secure media and communication systems.