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Alumnus wins CAST/ GI IT security PhD award
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Demmler gets awarded for PhD thesis
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Demmler, former doctoral and post-doc of the ENCRYPTO working group at the TU Darmstadt, led by ATHENE scientist Pro. Thomas Schneider, was awarded for his PhD Thesis „Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Protocols“ with the CAST/ GI PhD award IT security 2020/21.
The award is considered the most important national award for doctorates in the field of IT sceurity. At a virtual event that was part of the 17th German IT Security Congress, Daniel Demmler prevailed against 3 other finalists in the public vote.
Demmler dealt with privacy-protecting protocols in his dissertation "Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Protocols".
He wrote the thesis, which he passed with distinction, from 2013 to 2018 at the ENCRYPTO department (Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group) . Since November 2019 Daniel Demmler has been working as a Post-Doc at the University of Hamburg in the “Security in Distributed Systems” working group.
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