Christoph Lenzen

Christoph Lenzen is a Professor at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security since July 2021. Previously, he served as a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2014-2021), and held postdoctoral positions at MIT CSAIL (2013-2014), Weizmann Institute (2012), and Hebrew University (2011).

Research Interests

• Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
• Clock synchronization and adversarial fault tolerance
• Randomized and self-stabilizing systems
• Hardware algorithms for fault-tolerant systems

Grants and Awards

• ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant (2021)
• ERC Starting Grant (2017-2022)
• ETH Zurich Medal for Outstanding Thesis (2011)

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (2011), ETH Zurich
• Diploma in Mathematics (2007), University of Bonn

Teaching

• Clock Synchronization and Adversarial Fault Tolerance (2022 winter)
• How To Clock Your Computer (2022 summer)
• Theory of Distributed Systems (2019 winter, 2020 winter, 2018 winter, 2017 winter, 2016 winter, 2015 winter)