Prof Dr Bart Mennink (B.J.M.)
I am a full professor in the Department of Applied Computing Sciences at Maastricht University. Before, I was an associate professor in the Digital Security Group at Radboud University Nijmegen, partially funded by an NWO Vidi grant, an NWO Veni postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University, as well as an FWO postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven in the COSIC research group. I finished my PhD, entitled Provable Security of Cryptographic Hash Functions, in 2013 under supervision of Bart Preneel and Vincent Rijmen. Before, I completed my Master's thesis on Encrypted certificate schemes and their security and privacy analysis at Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Expertises
My research interests include all aspects of cryptology, with main focus on symmetric cryptography (such as hash functions and authenticated encryption), provable security, cryptographic protocols, and their applications to today's society.