Tanja Lange is a German

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

and number theorist at the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...

. She is known for her research on

post-quantum cryptography In cryptography, post-quantum cryptography (sometimes referred to as quantum-proof, quantum-safe or quantum-resistant) refers to cryptographic algorithms (usually public-key algorithms) that are thought to be secure against a cryptanalytic attack ...

Education and career

Lange earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 from the

Technical University of Braunschweig The Technische Universität Braunschweig (unofficially University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology), commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the

Universität Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by

Gerhard Frey Gerhard Frey (; born 1 June 1944) is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of Hellegouarch, he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic curve from a pur ...

and

YoungJu Choie YoungJu Choie (, born June 15, 1959) is a South Korean mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Her research interests include number theory and modular forms.Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

, she became an associate professor at the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's fi ...

in 2005. She moved to the

as a full professor in 2007. At Eindhoven, she chairs the coding theory and cryptology group and is scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information. She is also the coordinator of PQCRYPTO, a European multi-university consortium to make electronic communications future-proof against threats such as quantum factorization. She is one of the main authors of The ''Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography,'' published in 2005.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lange, Tanja Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German computer scientists German women computer scientists 21st-century German mathematicians German women mathematicians Technical University of Braunschweig alumni University of Duisburg-Essen alumni Technical University of Denmark faculty Eindhoven University of Technology faculty Number theorists Modern cryptographers German cryptographers 21st-century German women

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