Paul Gerhart
PhD student
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Office: FB 0307
Email: mail [at] paul-gerhart.de
I am a doctoral student at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies research unit at TU Wien in Austria, under the supervision of Dominique Schröder.
Research
My research focuses on the design and analysis of advanced cryptographic protocols. In particular threshold and adaptor signatures, partially-oblivious pseudorandom functions (PoPRFs), and password-based cryptography. I am especially interested in achieving strong security guarantees in challenging settings, and in developing constructions that are both theoretically sound and practically efficient.
Education
I received an M.Sc. in Computer Science from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2020–2022), where I specialized in security and cryptography. I also hold a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Bonn (2017–2020), focusing on lower-dimensional algebraic topology, in particular Riemann surfaces and 3-manifold topology.
