Rate My Professor Martin Albrecht

Martin Albrecht is Professor of Cybersecurity and Chair of Cryptography in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. He earned his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the supervision of Carlos Cid. Subsequently, he held postdoctoral positions with Jean-Charles Faugère at LIP6, Paris, France; Gregor Leander at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby; and Kenny Paterson at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to his current role, Albrecht was a professor in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway. He also serves as a Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ and is a member of the King’s Cryptographers research group as well as the Security Hub.

Albrecht’s research specializations include lattice-based cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, applied cryptography, social foundations of cryptography and information security, and computational mathematics. He has secured significant funding as Principal Investigator for EPSRC projects such as Advanced Practical Post-Quantum Cryptography from Lattices (APPQC, 2024–2029), Social Foundations of Cryptography (2024–2026), and The Limits of Quantum Computing: an approach via Post-Quantum Cryptography (2023–2024). His influential work includes security analyses of real-world messaging protocols, earning the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy distinguished paper award in 2023 for revealing vulnerabilities in a popular chat platform. Key publications feature “Four Attacks and a Proof for Telegram” (2025, Journal of Cryptology), “Formal Analysis of Multi-Device Group Messaging in WhatsApp” (2025, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT), “Analysis of the Telegram Key Exchange” (2025, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT), “Partial Lattice Trapdoors: How to Split Lattice Trapdoors, Literally” (2025, ASIACRYPT), and “Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions from Lattices: Practical-Ish and Thresholdisable” (2024, ASIACRYPT). With over 9,000 citations on Google Scholar, Albrecht’s contributions have substantial impact on advancing secure cryptographic protocols against emerging threats like quantum computing.