I am a PhD candidate at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in the Cryptography group supervised by Krzysztof Pietrzak. My research is mostly concerned with the use of physical resources (e.g., disk space) in cryptography. Covering both theory and practice, my works range from memory-complexity lowerbounds for trapdoor memory-hard functions to using proofs of space as a sybil-resistance mechanism for distributed hash tables.

Before joining ISTA, I completed the Bachelor with Honors program at TU Wien under the mentorship of Matteo Maffei. During undergrad, I also participated in CTFs playing with the team We_0wn_Y0u.