| Ueli Maurer | |
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1960 |
| Birth Place: | St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Alma Mater: | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
| Thesis Title: | Provable Security in Cryptography |
| Thesis Year: | 1990 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | James Massey |
| Discipline: | Cryptography |
| Workplaces: | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
Ueli Maurer (born 26 May 1960[1]) is a professor of cryptography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).
Maurer studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1990, advised by James Massey.[2] He joined Princeton University as a postdoc from 1990 to 1991.
In a seminal work, he showed that the Diffie-Hellman problem is (under certain conditions) equivalent to solving the discrete log problem.[3]
From 2002 until 2008, Maurer also served on the board of Tamedia AG.[4]
Maurer was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptology in 2002[5] for a three-year term.[6] He was reappointed to a second three-year term as editor-in-chief of the same journal from 2005.[7]
In 2008, Maurer was named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research "for fundamental contributions to information-theoretic cryptography, service to the IACR, and sustained educational leadership in cryptology."[8] In 2015, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to cryptography and information security."[9] In 2016, he was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics.[10]