Krzysztof Pietrzak

Professor, IST Austria

Krzysztof Pietrzak is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) and leads the cryptography group. He earned his PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2005. Before joining IST, he spent five years as a postdoc at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, and prior to that, one year as a postdoc at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His current research interests include sustainable blockchains (he’s involved with chia.net), group messaging and leakage/tamper-resilient cryptography.

Program Visits

Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation, Summer 2025, Visiting Scientist