Martijn Stam
Chief Research Scientist, Simula UiB
Chief Research Scientist, Simula UiB
Martijn Stam is an all-round cryptographer who has worked on wide range of topics, from provable security of symmetric-key based protocols to efficient implementation of public-key style primitives. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 at the Eindhoven University of Technology and after a number of postdoctoral positions, became Assistant and later Associate Professor in cryptology at the University of Bristol. He served as Secretary of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) from 2011 to 2016. He joined Simula UiB (Bergen, Norway) at the beginning of 2019, where he is currently Chief Research Scientist in cryptology, with a focus on proving concrete and meaningful security bounds from low-level implementation to high-level deployment.