Education

08/2022 - presentTU Wien, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Doctoral Student in Cryptography
Fair Protocols, Password-Hardening, Privacy
Dominique Schröder
10/2020 - 07/2022Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Master of Science in Computer Science
Cryptography, Privacy, Cyber Security and IT-Forensics
10/2017 - 09/2020University of Bonn
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Algebraic Topology

Work

12/2022 - presentAssessor
Cryptography, Privacy, IT-Forensics
09/2024 - presentUniversity Research Assistant
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
TU Wien
08/2022 - 08/2024University Research Assistant
Applied Cryptography
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2017 - 07/2022Student Employee
Software Development
Richard Wenzel GmbH & Co.KG

Research Visits

08/2024Research Visit
Prof. Anna Lysyanskaya
Brown University, Providence, RI
08/2023 - 11/2023Research Internship
Prof. Jonathan Katz
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Supervised Students

2024Katharina Schambach
Atomic Swaps from Minimal Assumptions
Bachelor Thesis
2024Fabian Jost
Foundations of Blind Conditional Signatures
Master Thesis
2023Daniel Lang
Strong Unlinkability for Adaptor Signatures
Bachelor Thesis
2023Ruben Baecker
Phoenix Rise Once Again: How to Defeat the (PW-)Hero
Master Thesis
2023Julian Thomas
Signature Security Revisited: One Dice to Rule Them All
Master Thesis

Teaching Activities

Winter term 24/25Privacy Enhancing Technologies (B.Sc.)
Teaching assistant
Lecture
Winter term 23/24Introduction to Modern Cryptography
Teaching assistant
Lecture
Winter term 22/23Introduction to Modern Cryptography
Teaching assistant
Lecture

Publications

2025SoK: Descriptive Statistics Under Local Differential Privacy
René Raab, Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder
PoPETS 2025
2024Measuring Conditional Anonymity - A Global Study
Pascal Berrang, Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder
PoPETS 2024
Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
Paul Gerhart, Dominique Schröder, Pratik Soni, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
EUROCRYPT 2024
2023Practical Schnorr Threshold Signatures without the Algebraic Group Model
Hien Chu, Paul Gerhart, Tim Ruffing, Dominique Schröder
CRYPTO 2023
2022A General Approach to Adaptor Signatures
supervised by Dominique Schröder, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan, and Pratik Soni
Master Thesis
2020Surgery and a Theorem of Lickorish
supervised by Wolfgang Lück and Christoph Winges
Bachelor Thesis

Talks

2024Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
Brown Crypto Day 2024
Providence, RI
Measuring Conditional Anonymity - A Global Study
PETS 2024
Bristol, UK
Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
CIBE 2024
Bertinoro, IT
Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
EUROCRYPT 2024
Zürich, CH
Foundations of Adaptor Signatures
Seminar Talk 2024
Qiang Tang, University of Sydney, AU
2023Practical Schnorr Threshold Signatures without the Algebraic Group Model
CRYPTO 2023
Santa Barbara, CA
How to Avoid Unfair Exchange: Adaptor Security Revisited
IEEE S&P 2023
San Francisco, CA