CURRENT POSITION:
1/1/2026 Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing, CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
(1/9/2025 - 31/12/2025) CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Focus: Intersections of Number Theory, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and Quantum Computing.
Research Project: QUEST, in collaboration with CQTA, DESY-Zeuthen.
(1/9/2024 - 31/8/2025) Center for Quantum Technology and Applications (CQTA), DESY-Zeuthen, Germany.
Postdoctoral Researcher in the area of Post-quantum Cryptography, Research Group of Professor Karl Jansen.
(1/2/2024 - 31/8/2024) Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn.
Supervisor: Professor Pieter Moree.
Research focus: 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.
(1/2/2021 - 31/1/2024) CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrucken Germany.
Supervisor: Professor Antoine Joux
Postdoctoral researcher in the area of Mathematical Cryptology
Research Project: ALMACRYPT (Algorithmic and Mathematical Cryptology).
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
1 - 3/12/25: Invited Speaker at the NSA Symposium, Science Park, Amsterdam. "Connecting the Dots: Number Theory - Cryptography - Quantum Computing".
QUEST - EuroCC-2 Workshop: Talk
20/10/25: Seminar Talk at the Cyprus Institute: "Cryptography in the Quantum Era: Entangling Number Theory".
5/8 - 8/8/25: Summer School on Topology and Geometry, Department of Mathematics, University of Cyprus. https://www.mas.ucy.ac.cy/cneofy01/conferences/TGCY2025/index.html
9/6 - 13/6/25: Poster Presentation at "Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory - Multiyear Program - Conference", CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille, France. https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/3343.html
12/5 - 14/5/2025: Talk at the Quantum Workshop DESY. "(Post-)Quantum TOR via Isogeny Graphs".
5/2/2025: Invited Talk at the Mathematics Department of the University of Cyprus. "The Ideal Class Group Action for Post-quantum Cryptography".
30/1 - 8/2/2025: Research Visit at QUEST, The Cyprus Institute.
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/