Assistant Professor of Digital Security: Hardware for cryptography

Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent, 0.8 to 1.0 FTE). We are looking for applicants with a strong research record in either cryptographic engineering or machine learning in cryptography. In particular, we are looking for candidates with experience in security evaluation of cryptographic hardware or hardware/software co-design for cryptography.

The position is within the Digital Security (DiS) section of the Institute for Computing and Information Science (iCIS). As an Assistant Professor you will be responsible for the development and coordination of security courses at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. You will be expected to develop connections within our institute and Radboud University and beyond and contribute to administrative tasks and outreach activities. This position has a good balance between teaching, research and administration, giving the candidate time to write research proposals and further develop their research lines and career.

• We will give you a temporary employment contract of one year with the prospect of a permanent contract.
• Your salary within salary scale 11 depends on your previous education and number of years of (relevant) work experience. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.
• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Support Service. The Dual Career Programme assists your partner via support, tools, and resources to improve their chances of independently finding employment in the Netherlands. Our Family Support Service helps you and your partner feel welcome and at home by providing customised assistance in navigating local facilities, schools, and amenities. Also take a look at our support for international staff page to discover all our services for international employees.
• You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

Digital Security group (DiS)
Digital security is an increasingly important issue in our society. As one of the three research groups at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICIS), the Digital Security group researches a wide range of topics in the (overlapping) fields of cybersecurity, cryptography and privacy.

Research topics of the Digital Security group include the design and secure implementation of symmetric cryptography and post-quantum cryptography, side-channel analysis, software security, mobile network security, online tracking, privacy design patterns, legal aspects of privacy, and user- and privacy-friendly solutions for identity management and data management. Additionally, the group conducts research in the various domains at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity such as security of machine learning, AI for automated analysis and design, federated learning, etc.

Institute for Computing and Information Science (iCIS)
iCIS is a medium-sized research institute at the Faculty of Science, on a mission to improve the security, reliability and validity of computer systems and algorithms through mathematically founded theories, methods and tools. Our research agenda is driven by the need for fundamental computer science research; to develop new paradigms and go beyond knowledge boundaries, to ensure the foundational results that society and the open-source community need to build on now and in the future. The applicability of the institute’s methods and tools is validated by tackling problems in society, industry, and other academic disciplines such as medical science, chemistry, physics and sociology.

Seeing how computing creates new opportunities for other academic disciplines to understand phenomena in their fields, we also invest in demonstrating the usefulness of our methods in various other academic areas. However, we do so without losing sight of our main ambition: to improve computer-based systems and algorithms that are applicable across a range of applications.

Current research at iCIS is concentrated on themes in the national Sector Plan for Science and Technology: software, data science and artificial intelligence, security, privacy and cryptography. The increasing awareness of the societal relevance of, dependence on, and potentially harmful effects of ICT opens up new opportunities for funding fundamental research on all these aspects. Our strategic goal is to strengthen research across these themes, especially in AI and security and AI and (software) verification. We are also looking to expand our research capacity in human-computer interaction and study how technologies impact people’s lives.

As its founding institute, iCIS has close ties to iHub, Radboud's interdisciplinary research hub on digitisation and society. Finally, we welcome people with expert knowledge in adjacent fields if the embedding in the institute’s research programme is well motivated and the new expertise offers exciting future research directions. Research and teaching go hand in hand in our vision on academia. You should therefore have the drive to lead the development of the teaching curriculum and contribute to its innovation.