Hi! My name is Bor, and I'm a cryptographer!
I work as a scientist in the Applied Cryptography & Quantum Algorithms group at TNO in The Hague.
My primary research interest is Post-Quantum Cryptography, specifically Key Exchange in its various forms – but I'm always excited about working with other cryptographic topics.
Before starting at TNO I was an assistant professor (universitetslektor) and then an associate professor (førsteamanuensis) at NTNU – the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. I am very passionate about explaining and teaching cryptography, and spent most of my time there supervising students and teaching master-level courses.
In 2025 I am on the editorial board of The IACR Communications in Cryptography, and a Co-General Chair for the PKC 2025 conference, which will take place in Røros, Norway.
Some papers out there:I did my PhD at NTNU, with Colin Boyd as my main supervisor and Kristian Gjøsteen as co-supervisor. My dissertation was called From Lattice Crypto to Lættis Krypto: Various Approaches to Post-Quantum Key Exchange. You can find it in NTNU Open, but some of the papers have undergone minor revisions since and the links above will most likely be more up-to-date.
In Spring 2018 I completed a Master of Science degree from Eindhoven University of Technology. I followed the Information Security Technology track (then called "The TRU/e Master") in the Computer Science and Engineering program. My Master's thesis A Non-Interactive Key Exchange based on Ring-Learning With Errors was supervised by Tanja Lange. I also spent spring 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Nadia Heninger on a cryptology research project.
Before that I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree, also from TU Eindhoven. I majored in Computer Science & Engineering with a minor in linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.
At TU Eindhoven I was an elected member of the departmental council (at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and the university council, for student party Groep-één. At NTNU in Trondheim I was an elected member of the faculty board (at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electical Engineering).
I enjoy spending my free time volunteering and organizing: before I moved to Norway I was on the provincial board of Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA, the youth organization of the Dutch Labour Party and involved in GEWIS, the student union for mathematicians and computer scientists, where I also served as a full-time board member for a year. In Trondheim I was on the financial board of Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem. Current hobbies include things like amateur radio, running, knitting and playing (classical) upright bass .
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