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Christoph Egger is an Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he works with the Security & Privacy Lab and the Crypto Team. Prior to this position, he was a Marie-Curie Fellow at Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF) from fall 2022 to 2024, researching connections between cryptography and complexity theory.
His educational background includes:
- PhD: "On Abstraction and Modularization in Protocol Analysis"
- Master's: "An implementation of global caching for the alternation-free coalgebraic μ-calculus"
- Bachelor's: "Analysing and attacking the I2P Network Database"
Dr. Egger's research focuses on cryptography and its connections to computational complexity, statistical privacy, and formal methods. His work spans multiple areas including cryptographic foundations (random oracles, key agreement protocols), privacy-enhancing technologies (ring signatures, information flow techniques), and practical applications in genomic data security. He develops both theoretical frameworks and practical tools like CryptoZoo for cryptographic proof visualization, bridging the gap between theoretical cryptography and real-world security challenges.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on cryptographic foundations and privacy technologies, with significant contributions to ring signatures, key agreement protocols, and genomic data security. His work bridges theoretical cryptography with practical applications in blockchain, anonymous communications, and healthcare data management, showing consistent productivity across multiple high-impact venues in security and privacy.
Dr. Egger has served on program committees for prestigious conferences including IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), and Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS).
He currently advises PhD students Lucia Lavagnino at Chalmers and Kirthivaasan Puniamurthy at Aalto University. Previously, he advised Master's students including Julian Brost and Kirthivaasan Puniamurthy. His Marie-Curie Fellowship was cofunded by EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action and FSMP Comunity Service.
Dr. Egger is an active member of the Security & Privacy Lab and Crypto Team at Chalmers. He is also a founding member of the FAUST CTF team and has been a Debian Developer for over a decade, contributing to various Free Software projects including the Linux kernel and Git version control system, demonstrating his commitment to both academic research and practical software security.
