CURRENT POSITION: (1/9/2024 - 31/8/2025) Postdoctoral Researcher in the area of Post-quantum Cryptography, Research Group of Professor Karl Jansen, Center for Quantum Technology and Applications, DESY Helmholtz Research Center, Zeuthen, Germany. My main research focus is on explicit algebraic structures in the moduli space of elliptic curves and their direct applications in post-quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
PREVIOUS POSITION: (1/2/2024 - 31/8/2024) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, under the supervision of Professor Pieter Moree. I was working on problems (mostly) related to:
Heegner Points and Algebraic Structures in the Moduli Space of Elliptic Curves,
Selmer and Tate-Shafarevich groups of Elliptic curves,
The Theory of Complex Multiplication and Isogeny-based Cryptography,
Quantum Algorithms for Number Theory and Cryptography.
PREVIOUS POSITION: (1/2/2021 - 31/1/2024) Postdoctoral researcher in the area of Mathematical Cryptology, working under the supervision of Professor Antoine Joux, at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrucken Germany.
PhD: I received my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park, working under the supervision of Professor Lawrence C. Washington.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Algebraic and Computational Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Mathematical Foundations of (Post-quantum) Cryptography and Quantum Computing.
RECENT & UPCOMING
Co-organizing together with Stephan Ehlen (BSI), Joanna Meinel (BSI) and Pieter Moree (MPIM) a mini Conference on the Mathematics of Post-quantum Cryptograpy.
Date: 04/12/2024 - 05/12/2024
Location: MPIM Lecture Hall
Conference Website:
https://www.mpimbonn.mpg.de/node/13403
28/11: Seminar Talk: "Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Isogeny-based Cryptography", Center for Quantum Technology and Applications, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany.
17/7: "3-Selmer groups and the rank of Elliptic Curves of j-invariant zero", Talk at the Number Theory Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn.
4 - 5/7: "The Theory of Complex Multiplication and the Class Group Action in Cryptography", Invited Talk at the 2nd Workshop of Greek Women in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens https://sites.google.com/view/greek-women-in-mathematics-en/events/second-gwm-workshop .
11/3 - 15/3/24: International conference on modular forms and q-series, University of Cologne.
30/11/23: Seminar Talk on "Lattice-based Crypto: The Closest (CVP) - Shortest (SVP) Vector Problem and the Mathematics behind", DESY - Quantum (Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications), Zeuthen, Germany.
7/10 - 6/11/23: I am happy to have received the HIDA Grant (Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy), to carry out a self-organized research project, at the ERA Chair of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, at the Cyprus Institute, with Professor Karl Jansen of DESY as my Host Supervisor. The project revolves around the Mathematics of Quantum Computing and Post-quantum Cryptography.
25-27/10/23: Quantum Workshop Cyprus indico.desy.de/event/39497/
21/8 - 1/9/23: Research Visit with Assistant Professor Evis Ieronymou, Mathematics Department, University of Cyprus. The purpose of the visit is to discuss specific counterexamples to the Hasse principle.
14 - 18/8/23: Research Visit at the University of Bristol to work on a project related to Abstract Groups and Homomorphic Encryption, together with Chloe Martindale (University of Bristol), Annette Bachmayr (RWTH Aachen University), Vishnupriya Anupindi (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), and Rahinatou Yuh Njah Epouse Nchiwo (Aalto-yliopisto).
5/6 - 9/6/23: "Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory - Multiyear Program - Conference", CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille, France. https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2889.html
15/5 - 19/5/23: "Jean-Morlet Chair - Conference - Arithmetic Statistics", CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille, France. https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2675.html
8 - 12/5/23: "Jean Morlet Chair - Spring School in Arithmetic Statistics" CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille, France. https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2679.html
2/5/23: Invited Talk “Elliptic Curves of j-invariant zero and the Ideal Class Group”, Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of Saarland.
26 - 30 /9/22: Women in Arithmetic Geometry, University of Heidelberg, Germany. https://2022-wiag.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
29/8/22 - 2/9/22: Invited to join the Project Group: Abstract Groups in Cryptography, at the Women in Numbers -4, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. https://women-in-numbers-europe-4.sites.uu.nl/project-groups/
17/5/22: Invited Talk "On the Selmer group and rank of a family of elliptic curves and curves of genus one violating the Hasse Principle", Number Theory Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of Luxembourg. https://math.uni.lu/nt/