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Munich, Germany Germany

Staff Engineer

Technology / Software / Internet

Dr. Roberto Avanzi received his master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Padova in 1997, and his PhD from the University of Essen in 2001 (supervisor: Gerhard Frey). Afterwards, he became interested in all aspects of cryptography, especially elliptic and hyperelliptic curves. In 2004 he was appointed Junior Professor of Cryptology at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, a position he held until September 2011. While in Bochum he became interested in other topics such as user privacy awareness and gesture based interaction with mobile devices. He (co-)authored 12 peer-reviewed journal papers, 22 publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, 2 books (including the referenc...