Christian Schaffner

Prof. Dr. Christian Schaffner is a world-leading expert in quantum cryptography, both on conventional cryptography that remains secure against quantum attackers (also known as post-quantum cryptography) and on the design of protocols that solve cryptographic problems involving quantum data and quantum communication.

Schaffner is full professor in Theoretical Computer Science and group leader of the Theory of Computer Science (TCS) group at the Informatics Institute at University of Amsterdam and director of QuSoft, the Dutch research center for quantum software. He received his diploma degree in mathematics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2003 and a PhD degree in computer science from Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2007.