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PhotoProf Simon Blackburn B.Sc. (Bristol) D.Phil. (Oxon) received his BSc in Mathematics from Bristol University in 1989 and his DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford University in 1992. From 1992-1995, he was an EPSRC Advanced Fellow. He is a Professor of Pure Mathematics. His research interests include combinatorics, group theory and cryptography.

Room: McCrea 214 - Tel: 01784 443422 - E-mail: s.blackburn [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Carlos Cid BSc, PhD (UnB, Brazil) received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Brasilia, Brazil in 1999. After working for a short period as lecturer in Brazil, he spent a year as postdoctoral researcher at RWTH-Aachen, Germany. Between 2001 and 2003 he worked as software engineer for an Irish start-up, where he was involved in the design and development of hardware security modules and network security appliances. He joined the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway in October 2003, as a postdoctoral research assistant to work on the EPSRC-funded project "Security Analysis of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)". He is currently a RCUK Academic Fellow. Carlos has a broad interest in the area of Information Security, in particular cryptography.

Room: McCrea 224 - Tel: 01784 414685 - E-mail: carlos.cid [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Chez Ciechanowicz B.Sc. Ph.D. (London) received his BSc (Hons) in Pure Mathematics in 1975 from the University of London, and his PhD degree in Mathematics (also from the University of London) in 1980. He then worked at the National Physical Laboratory for five years specialising firstly in compiler validation, then in cryptography and digital signatures. He ended his stay at the Laboratory holding the rank of Senior Scientific Officer. His next appointment was as a full-time lecturer in the Computer Science Department of Royal Holloway, his main area of interest being cryptography. Between 1999 and 2001 Chez worked as a consultant at Baltimore Technologies (a company that works exclusively in the area of Information Security). His main areas of interest at Baltimore were risk analysis and security management. Chez has performed numerous security reviews for large Government departments and industrial institutions throughout Europe and the States. He was a principal author of Baltimore's own risk analysis method. He is editor of the Elsevier Information Security Technical Report. For an extended period Chez was on secondment to the Information Security Group as the Baltimore Teaching Fellow. He is also a member of the BCS ISEB Information Security Management Certificate Board. Chez became a permanent member of the group in 2001.

Room: McCrea 341 - Tel: 01784 443112 - E-mail: z.ciechanowicz [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoMs Lizzie Coles-Kemp B.A.(Hons), M.Sc. was awarded a B.A (Hons) in Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics from the University of Hull in 1988. She then worked as a UNIX software trainer and translator for several years, specialising in applications adapted for variants of secure UNIX. In 1991 she joined the Swedish security software company, Dynamic Software AB, eventually becoming director of the UK subsidiary, DynaSoft Ltd, with responsibility for UNIX security and smart card projects across Europe and in the US. In 1997 Lizzie left DynaSoft to become global IT Security Officer for the British Council and completed the Information Security MSc at Royal Holloway. She now subcontracts as Lead Assessor for Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) auditing organisations to ISO/IEC 27001 and tScheme. She works for the ISG as a lecturer in information governance and security management for the BSc/MSci in Biomedical Informatics which is a collaborative programme between St George's, University of London, Kingston University and Royal Holloway. Lizzie also contributes to the distance learning version of the Information Security MSc. Her academic research areas are currently risk assessment, organization and organisational theory applied to security management and design aspects of information security management systems. Lizzie is completing a PhD in information security management at King's College, London.

Room: McCrea 342 - Tel: 01784 443084 - E-mail: Lizzie.Coles-Kemp [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Jason Crampton B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D.(London) was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Manchester in 1986. He worked as a maths teacher for several years and then for a trade union developing software solutions for the collection, recording and reporting of subscription income. He completed a part time MSc in Computer Science in 1996 and a PhD in 2002. His research interests include role-based access control and the application of partial order theory (and Sperner theory in particular) to access control.

Room: McCrea 344 - Tel: 01784 443117 - E-mail: Jason.Crampton [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Alex Dent M.Maths. (Oxon), PhD (London) received his undergraduate degree from St. Peter's College, Oxford, in 1998, and his doctorate from Royal Holloway in 2001. At the end of his doctorate he joined the staff of the Information Security Group as a research assistant for the NESSIE algorithm evaluation project. During this project he was part of the team responsible for evaluating the security of a series of public-key cryptosystems, and the result of his work directly influenced the contents of several security standards. In 2005, he was awarded a prestigious EPSRC Junior Research Fellowship, one of ten awards made that year, to continue his research on the theory of provable security in public-key encryption schemes. In 2006, he was employed as a full-time lecturer at Royal Holloway. His main research interests are in the theory of provable security and how this theory can be applied to public-key cryptosystems. He teaches the campus-based and distance-learning versions of the "Standards and Evaluation Criteria" M.Sc. course.

Room: McCrea 223 - Tel: 01784 414922 - E-mail: a.dent [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoMr Andreas Fuchsberger B.Sc. M.Sc. (London) EUR ING CEng MBCS CITP CISSP-ISSAP received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in 1992 and an MSc in Information Security in 1993, both from Royal Holloway, University of London. Andreas lectures in the areas of network, computer and software security. He has over 18 years of experience in teaching and running training classes in IT security architecture, design and programming. He has published articles on programming and network security, intrusion detection/prevention and vulnerability analysis. From 1999 until 2000 he was employed as a principal Consultant for ISS until he joined eSecurity Inc as Technical Manager for EMEA. He rejoined the ISG in 2003. Andreas holds CISSP and ISSAP credentials of (ISC)2. He is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Engineering Council UK as well as a EUR ING of Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs (FEANI).

Room: McCrea 339 - Tel: 01784 443094 - E-mail: A.Fuchsberger [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Steven Galbraith B.C.M.S. (Waikato), M.S. (Georgia Tech), D.Phil (Oxford) was awarded a Bachelor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Waikato in New Zealand in 1989, a Master of Science from Georgia Tech in the USA in 1991, and a Doctorate from Oxford University in 1996. He has held research positions at the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo, Canada and at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen, Germany. His research interests include computational number theory, computational algebraic geometry and public key cryptography.

Room: McCrea 346 - Tel: 01784 414396 - E-mail: steven.galbraith [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Kostas Markantonakis B.Sc. (Lancaster University), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London) received his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 1995, his MSc in Information Security in 1999, his PhD in 2000 and his MBA in International Management in 2005 from Royal Holloway, University of London. His main research interests include smart card security and applications, secure protocol design, Public Key Infrastructures, key management, mobile phone security. Since completing his PhD, he has worked as an independent consultant in a number of information security and smart card related projects. He has worked as a Multi-application smart card Manager in VISA International EU, responsible for multi-application smart card technology for southern Europe. More recently, he was working as a Senior Information Security Consultant for Steer Davies Gleave, responsible for advising transport operators and financial institutions on the use of smart card technology. He is also a member of the IFIP Working Group 8.8 on Smart Cards. He is currently a Reader in the Information Security Group. He continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics including smart card security, key management, information security protocols, mobile devices, smart card migration program planning/project management for financial institutions and transport operators.

Room: Founders West 158 - Tel: 01784 414409 - E-mail: K.Markantonakis [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Keith Martin B.Sc. (Glasgow), PhD (London), CMath FIMA joined the Information Security Group as a lecturer in January 2000. He received his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Glasgow in 1988 and a PhD from Royal Holloway in 1991. Between 1992 and 1996 he held a Research Fellowship in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, investigating mathematical modeling of cryptographic key distribution problems. In 1996 he joined the COSIC research group of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium where he was primarily involved in an EU ACTS project concerning security for third generation mobile communications. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Wollongong, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. Keith's current research interests include cryptography, key management and wireless sensor network security. Keith is also interested in e-learning and is a co-developer of the distance learning MSc Information Security.

Room: McCrea 349 - Tel: 01784 443099 - E-mail: keith.martin [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Keith Mayes B.Sc. Ph.D. (Bath) CEng MIEE received his BSc (Hons) in Electronic Engineering in 1983 from the University of Bath, and his PhD degree in Digital Image Processing (also from the University of Bath) in 1987. During his first degree he was employed by Pye TVT (Philips) which designed and produced TV broadcast and studio equipment. His PhD was sponsored by Honeywell Aerospace and Defence and on completion he accepted their offer of a job. In 1988 he started work for Racal Research Limited (RRL), at a time when Racal owned its core defence business, Chubb and a small company called Vodafone. During seven years at RRL he worked on a wide range of research and advanced development products and was accepted as a Chartered Engineer. In 1995 he joined Racal Messenger to continue work on a Vehicle Licence plate recognition system (Talon) and an early packet radio system (Widanet/Paknet). In 1996 Keith joined Vodafone as a Senior Manager working within the Communication Security and Advanced Development group, under Professor Michael Walker. Early work concerned advanced radio relaying systems and involved participation in international standardisation. Later he led the Maths & Modelling team and eventually took charge of the 20 strong Fraud & Security group. During this time he was training in intellectual property and licensing, culminating in membership of the Licensing Executives Society and the added responsibility for patent issues in Vodafone UK. Keith is named inventor on many patent applications. In 2000, following some work on m-commerce and an increasing interest in Smart Cards he joined the Vodafone International organisation as the Vodafone Global SIM Card Manager, responsible for SIM card harmonisation and strategy for the Vodafone Group. In 2002, Keith left Vodafone to set up his own Telecoms Consulting Company (Crisp Telecom) and in November 2002 he also started as the Director of the Smart Card Centre at RHUL.

Room: Founders West 156 - Tel: 01784 414408 - E-mail: keith.mayes [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Chris Mitchell BSc PhD (London) CEng CITP CMath FBCS FIET FIMA received his BSc (1975) and PhD (1979) degrees in Mathematics from Westfield College, London University. Prior to his appointment in 1990 as Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, he was a Project Manager in the Networks and Communications Laboratory of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, which he joined in 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 he was at Racal-Comsec Ltd. (Salisbury, UK), latterly as Chief Mathematician.
Since joining Royal Holloway in 1990 he has played a role in the development of the Information Security Group, and helped launch the MSc in Information Security in 1992. His research interests mainly relate to information security and the applications of cryptography. He has played an active role in a number of international collaborative projects, including Open Trusted Computing, a current EU 6th Framework Integrated Project. Completed projects include the Mobile VCE Core 2 and Core 3 programmes, four EU 5th Framework projects (SHAMAN and PAMPAS on mobile security, USB_Crypt dealing with novel security tokens, and the Finger_Card project combining smart cards and biometrics), and two EU ACTS projects on security for third generation mobile telecommunications systems (USECA and ASPeCT). He is currently convenor of Technical Panel 2 of BSI IST/33, dealing with security mechanisms and providing input to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27, on which he has served as a UK Expert since 1992. He has edited ten international security standards and published over 200 research papers. He is academic editor of Computer and Communications Security Abstracts, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Computer Journal. He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board and the DoCoMo Eurolabs Advisory Board, and he continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics in information security.

Room: McCrea 347 - Tel: 01784 443423 - E-mail: c.mitchell [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Sean Murphy BA(Oxon), PhD (Bath) received a B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bath in 1989. He has been at Royal Holloway since 1988 and is currently a Reader in the Information Security Group. His research interests centre on cryptology, especially encryption algorithms. He published some of the early papers on differential cryptanalysis and has written papers on a variety of cryptographic algorithms such as DES, IDEA, SAFER, Twofish and Rijndael.

Room: McCrea 354 - Tel: 01784 443699 - E-mail: s.murphy [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Siaw-Lynn Ng B.Sc. (Adelaide) Ph.D. (London) was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 1998. She was a post-doctoral research assistant at Royal Holloway from 1998 to 2001. Her research interests includes combinatorics and finite geometry and their applications in information security. Siaw-Lynn was appointed as a lecturer in 2001.

Room: McCrea 250 - Tel: 01784 414397 - E-mail: s.ng [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Kenny Paterson B.Sc. (Hons) (Glasgow), Ph.D. (London) obtained his BSc (Hons) in 1990 from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the University of London in 1993, both in mathematics. He was a Royal Society Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, from 1993 to 1994, investigating algebraic properties of block ciphers. After that, he was Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Foundation Fellow at the University of London from 1994 to 1996, working on digital signatures. He joined the mathematics group at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol in November 1996, becoming project manager in 1999. His technical work there involved him in international standards setting, internal consultancy on a wide range of mathematical and cryptographic subjects, and intellectual property generation. He also continued with more academic activities. As project manager, he was responsible for running the group and particularly enjoyed the challenge of managing new technology development and transfer to company divisions. Kenny's research interests span a wide range of topics: cryptography and protocols, network security, finite fields and exponential sums, sequences, coding theory and information theory.

Room: McCrea 348 - Tel: 01784 414393 - E-mail: kenny.paterson [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Geraint Price BSc (London), PhD (Cantab) obtained his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Royal Holloway University of London in 1994 and his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1999. His Ph.D. dissertation analysed the interaction between Computer Security and Fault Tolerance. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Research Associate within the University of Cambridge, working on projects related to Denial of Service attacks in networks. In November 2001, he joined the Information Security Group (ISG) as a Research Assistant to work on a project funded by PricewaterhouseCoopers on the future of Public Key Infrastructures. From late 2002 to mid 2004 he worked on a research project funded by the PKI Club at Royal Holloway. In Sept 2004 Geraint was appointed as Lecturer in Information Security. His research interests include secure protocols, Public Key Infrastructures, Denial of Service attacks and resilient security.

Room: McCrea 225 - Tel: 01784 414160 - E-mail: geraint.price [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Rüdiger Schack is a Professor of Mathematics. He is interested in open quantum systems and the physics of information, including quantum information theory and quantum cryptography.

Room: McCrea 234 - Tel: 01784 443097 - E-mail: r.schack [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche (Diplom-Informatikerin (Germany), Ph.D. (Cambridge)) finished her degree in computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany with the degree of "Diplom-Informatikerin" in 1992. She was awarded a Ph.D. in distributed systems technology (on composite event detection in distributed systems) from Cambridge University in 1996. After a one-year post-doctoral research position in Cambridge, Scarlet worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Darmstadt (Germany) at the GMD - German National Research Centre for Information Technology (now part of Fraunhofer) on biometrics and wireless communication protocols. In August 2001, she joined the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway to work on an EU-project called SHAMAN (http://www.ist-shaman.org/). Scarlet was appointed as Lecturer in Information Security at the beginning of 2003. Her special interests are security in mobile telecommunications systems, e-payment in m-commerce and e-commerce systems, and biometrics.

Room: McCrea 340 - Tel: 01784 443089 - E-mail: Scarlet.Schwiderski-Grosche [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Allan Tomlinson BSc(Strathclyde) MSc, PhD (Edinburgh) received his BSc in Applied Physics from Strathclyde in 1981; MSc in Microelectronics in 1987, and doctorate in 1991; both from Edinburgh. He then joined Institute of Microelectronics at the National University of Singapore, working on secure NICAM broadcasting and video compression. In 1994 he moved to GI in California to work on the Digicipher II Conditional Access system for digital video broadcasting. Before joining the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, he was Principal Engineer at Barco Communications Systems where he was responsible for the development of the "Krypton" DVB Video Scrambler. He also served for a number of years on the DVB Simulcrypt committee. He is currently a postdoctoral research assistant in the Information Security Group.

Room: McCrea 350 - Tel: 01784 443079 - E-mail: Allan.Tomlinson [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoProf Mike Walker BSc PhD (London) Dr.rer.nat.(habil) (Tübingen) CMath FIMA is the Group Research and Development Director for the Vodafone Group of companies, with the responsibility for the Group’s research activities, intellectual property and technology standards worldwide. He also leads technology innovation and manages engagement with start-up companies. He is a member of the board of Vodafone Ventures, the venture capital arm of the company. Michael holds the Vodafone Chair in Telecommunications at Royal Holloway, University of London, as a part-time professor, is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, and is Vice Chairman of the mobile VCE – a group of universities and industries researching mobile communications. He sits on scientific advisory boards for the Universities of Warwick and Surrey, the London Development Agency and the UK Government, and some start-up companies. He has held a number of positions with standards bodies, including chairmanship of the body responsible for the security aspects of UMTS. Before joining Vodafone, Michael was Head of Mathematics at Racal Research, and prior to that an academic at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Room: McCrea 250 - E-mail: mike.walker [at] vodafone [dot] com
PhotoProf Peter Wild BSc (Adelaide) PhD(London) received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Pure Mathematics in 1976 from the University of Adelaide, and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in 1980 from the University of London. He has worked at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; the University of Adelaide; and with the CSIRO, Australia. In 1984 he joined Royal Holloway where he is currently employed as a Professor in Mathematics. His research interests are in combinatorics, design theory, cryptography and coding theory. He has acted as a data security consultant for a number of companies offering advice in algorithm analysis, key management and user identification protocols.

Room: McCrea 227 - Tel: 01784 443081 - E-mail: p.wild [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Stephen Wolthusen Dipl.-Inform., Dr.-Ing. (TU Darmstadt) received his Dipl.-Inform. degree in computer science in 1999 and completed his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science in 2003, both at TU Darmstadt, Germany, where he was also active as lecturer in the graduate program from 1999 to 2005. From 1999 to 2005 he was with the security technology department at Fraunhofer-IGD, first as a member of the academic staff and then as deputy division chief; he retains an affiliation with the institute as senior scientist. While at Fraunhofer-IGD, Dr. Wolthusen was responsible for the scientific and administrative direction of research projects for both national government agencies and industry and has actively led several international research projects. Since 2005 he also holds an associate professorship at the Norwegian Information Security Laboratory at Gjøvik University College, Norway. Dr. Wolthusen is author of several books, has edited multiple conference proceedings volumes and also holds several German and international patents. He is vice chair of the IEEE Task Force on Information Assurance, a member of the IEEE Standardization Committee on Information Assurance, and a member of IEEE, ACM, the German Gesellschaft für Informatik, and the American Mathematical Society and is initiator and inaugural program chair of two IEEE conference series on information assurance and on critical infrastructure protection. His primary research interests are in the areas of information assurance and the use of formal methods for modeling, specification, and verification as well as models and analytical techniques for the protection of critical infrastructures.

Room: McCrea 353 - Tel: 01784 443270 - E-mail: stephen.wolthusen [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk