As the final meeting of the project , we will have several talks from PhD students that have graduated as part of the project, as well as invited talks connected to the project and its topics. Program: https://sp2.uni.lu/spsquared-final-meeting-and-workshop/

Congratulations to our SP2 researcher Verena Distler for being honoured with an “Excellent Thesis Award” by the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences.

On September 21, 2021 our SP2 doctoral candidate Verena Distler successfully defended her thesis titled: “The Experience of Security in Human-Computer Interactions: Understanding Security Perceptions Through the Concept of User Experience”

On September 15, 2021 our SP2 doctoral candidate Petra Sala successfully defended her thesis titled: “Attacks and Security Proofs of Password Authenticated Key-Exchange Protocols”

On July 6, 2021 our SP2 doctoral candidate Luca Notarnicola successfully defended his thesis titled: “Topics in Computational Number Theory and Cryptanalysis – On Euclidean Lattices, Edwards Curves and Cryptographic Multilinear Maps”

Congratulations to our SP2 researcher Marie Laure Zollinger for being honoured with an “Excellent Thesis Award” by the Doctoral School in Science and Engineering

On January 7, 2021 our SP2 doctoral candidate Jun Gao successfully defended his thesis titled “Mining App Lineages: A Security Perspective”.

In view of the current difficult situation of holding in-person colloquia for our SP2 activity, a virtual meeting took place on 7 December 2020 to discuss a proposal of a new format replacing this activity.

Congratulations to SP2 PhD researcher Lucian Andrei Trestioreanu and his colleagues on their recent first place win in the PayID BlockSprint Hackathon!

On September 25, 2020 our SP2 doctoral candidate Marie-Laure Zollinger successfully defended her thesis titled: “From Secure to Usable and Verifiable Voting Schemes”