Stefan Dziembowski is a professor at the University of Warsaw. He is interested in theoretical and applied cryptography. He received an M.Sc. in computer science in 1996 from the University of Warsaw and a Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, CNR Pisa, and the University of Rome, where he joined the faculty in 2008. In 2010, he moved to the University of Warsaw, where he leads the Cryptography and Blockchain Group.

His papers appeared at leading computer science conferences (FOCS, STOC, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, IEEE S&P, and ACM CCS), and journals (Journal of Cryptology and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Journal of the ACM, Communications of the ACM). He also served as a PC member of several international conferences and as a PC co-chair of Eurocrypt 2022. He was also a keynote speaker at the 2020 Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES). He was co-author of two papers that won the Best Paper Awards (at Eurocrypt 2014 and IEEE S&P 2014).

He received an ERC Advanced Grant, an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, an FNP Welcome grant, an FNP Team grant, two NCN “Opus” grants, and a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2006-2007). He is also a winner of the Polish-German “Copernicus” Award (in 2020, together with prof Sebastian Faust) and the Kazimierz Bartel Award (in 2016). He is a member of the Polish National Science Centre Council for the 2021-2024 term. He was also a panel member on the ERC Consolidator grant.

He promoted nine doctorates.