Tanja Lange is a German

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gen ...

and number theorist at the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology (), Abbreviation, abbr. TU/e, is a public university, public technical university in the Netherlands, situated in Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its Bachelor of Science, BS ...

. She is known for her research on

post-quantum cryptography Post-quantum cryptography (PQC), sometimes referred to as quantum-proof, quantum-safe, or quantum-resistant, is the development of cryptographic algorithms (usually public-key algorithms) that are currently thought to be secure against a crypt ...

Education and career

Lange earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 from the

Technical University of Braunschweig TU Braunschweig (, unofficially ''University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology'') is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a membe ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by

Gerhard Frey Gerhard Frey (; born 1 June 1944) is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. Following an original idea of , he developed the notion of Frey–Hellegouarch curve, Frey–Hellegouarch curves, a construction of an elliptic cur ...

and YoungJu Choie, concerned ''Efficient Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves''. After postdoctoral studies at

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began ...

, she became an associate professor at the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and it is today ran ...

in 2005. She moved to the

as a full professor in 2007. At Eindhoven, she chairs the

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...

and cryptology group and is scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information. She is also the coordinator of PQCRYPTO, a European multi-university consortium to make electronic communications future-proof against threats such as quantum factorization. She is one of the main authors of The ''Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography,'' published in 2005.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lange, Tanja Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German computer scientists German women computer scientists 21st-century German mathematicians German women mathematicians TU Braunschweig alumni University of Duisburg-Essen alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Denmark Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology Number theorists Modern cryptographers German cryptographers 21st-century German women

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