Ivan Damgård

Ivan Bjerre Damgård
Born (1956-04-17) April 17, 1956
Svendborg, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Alma materAarhus University
Known for
AwardsIACR Fellow (2010)
STOC Test of Time Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
InstitutionsDepartment of Computer Science, Aarhus University
Thesis Multiparty unconditionally secure protocols  (1988)
Doctoral advisorPeter Landrock
Doctoral studentsLars Knudsen
Ronald Cramer

Ivan Bjerre Damgård (born 1956) is a Danish cryptographer and currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Ivan is the co-founder of Cryptomathic, Partisia and Sepior. Ivan is a Professor and head of the research group in cryptography at Aarhus University. He is one of the top cited and publishing researchers in cryptography, is a fellow of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), and received the 2015 RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.