Univ.Prof. Dipl. Inform. Dr.rer.nat. Dominique Schröder was appointed University Professor of Privacy at the TU Wien with effect from 1.7.2024. He is assigned to the Institute of Logic and Computation, opens an external URL in a new window (E192) at the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien.

Dominique Schröder studied computer science at TU Braunschweig and graduated in 2006. In 2010, he received his doctorate with distinction from TU Darmstadt with a dissertation on “On the complexity of blind signatures, opens an external URL in a new window”. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a postdoc under Prof. Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland, where he was already a Visitor in 2010 and also in 2013 and 2015. In 2012, he started a three-year Assistant Professor position (W1) at Saarland University, where he subsequently worked as a tenured Associate Professor (W2) from 2015 to 2016. Since 2016, he has held the Chair of Applied Cryptography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Dominique Schröder's scientific home is the Research Unit of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, opens an external URL in a new window (E192-08). There he develops methods and techniques to reconcile the seemingly contradictory goals of processing large amounts of data and protecting the privacy of individuals. The aim is to find a balance between these two objectives in order to enable new applications that guarantee the protection of privacy and thus meet the requirements of data protection. The new research area will develop techniques ranging from highly efficient information-theoretic approaches in the field of differential privacy to privacy-friendly cryptographic primitives and protocols.

Publications by Dominique Schröder in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.