Eike Kiltz

Eike Kiltz is a German cryptographer and professor of computer science at Ruhr University Bochum.

Career Kiltz studied mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum, where he completed his PhD in 2004. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam in 2005. In 2010, he accepted a professorship at Ruhr University Bochum.

From 2010 to 2014, he received funding through a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2013, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2013-CoG-615073-ERCC) by the European Research Council.

Research Kiltz's research focuses on public-key cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and complexity theory. He contributed to the development of CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, two cryptographic schemes that were selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024. These standards are intended to resist attacks by future quantum computers.

Awards Year Award Awarding body 2010 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2013 ERC Consolidator Grant European Research Council 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft