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Jan Camenisch is Head of Research at Dfinity and Director of the Dfinity Zurich Research Lab. He also serves on Sovrin‘s Technical Governance Board. Before joining Dfinity, Jan was a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Zurich, where he lead the Privacy & Cryptography research team and was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

He is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography, has published over 120 widely cited papers, was granted about 140 patents worldwide, and has received a number of awards for his work, including the 2010 ACM SIGSAC outstanding innovation award, the 2013 IEEE computer society technical achievement award, and the 2018 IFIP Kristian Beckman award.