I received my PhD in cryptology at the University of Bergen, hosted by [Simula UiB](https://simula-uib.com) and under the supervision of [Martijn Stam](https://www.simula.no/people/martijn/). My thesis, [[Cryptology in the Crowd]], investigates how [[Tightness Subtleties for Multi-user PKE Notions|various]] [[SoK - Public Key Encryption with Openings|models]] of multi-user security of public-key encryption, with and without adaptive compromise, compare in terms of strength and usability. It also provides the first PKE construction [[Multi-Instance Secure Public-Key Encryption|provably resilient to mass surveillance ]] (within a certain model of mass surveillance). Following my PhD, I was a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU, at the [Department of Mathematical Sciences](https://www.ntnu.edu/imf/). Aside from continuing my research on provable security (now specialized to post-quantum cryptography), I also taught and coordinated the introductory course [TMA4140 Discrete Mathematics](https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TMA4140#tab=omEmnet). In January 12,026 I started my second post-doc, this time back with old colleagues at Simula UiB. Before my life as a cryptographer, I received my master's degree in theoretical particle physics under the supervision of [Jörn Kersten](https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Jörn.Kersten) at the University of Bergen, with the succinctly titled [[Mass Ordering of Third Generation Sleptons in a Trilinear-Augmented Gaugino Mediated Supersymmetry-Breaking Scenario]].