Arne Winterhof
Univ.-Doz. Dr.

Arne Winterhof
Univ.-Doz. Dr.
- Project Leader, Senior Research Scientist
- Applied Discrete Mathematics and Cryptography
- +43 732 2468 5225
- Arne.Winterhof(at)oeaw.ac.at
Biographical sketch
- 1989-1994: Studies in mathematics and computer sciences, Technical University of Braunschweig
- 1994: Diploma in mathematics, Technical University of Braunschweig, summa cum laude
- 1996: Ph.D. in mathematics, Technical University of Braunschweig, summa cum laude
- 2001: Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation), University of Vienna
- 2002-2005: Project leader of the FWF project S8313 'Number Theoretic Methods in Cryptography and Pseudorandom Number Generation'
- 2004: Edmund and Rosa Hlawka Prize for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
- 2006-2009: Project leader of the FWF project P19004-N18 'Pseudorandom Sequences'
- 2010: Advancement Award of the Austrian Mathematical Society
- 2014-2018: Project leader of the FWF project F5511-N26 'On the Hierarchy of Measures of Pseudorandomness'
- 2016: Call to a Full Professorship (W3) for 'Discrete Mathematics', University of Rostock (declined)
- 2017-2021: Project leader of the FWF project P30405 'Additive Combinatorics over Finite Fields and Applications'
- 2025-2027: Project leader of the FWF project PAT4719224 'Generalized Cyclotomic Mappings of Finite Fields'
Former and Current Positions
- 1995-1999: Research and teaching assistant, Institute of Algebra and Number Theory, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
- 1999-2002: Researcher, Institute of Discrete Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 2002-2003: Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore
- 2003-2009: Senior Scientist at RICAM
- Since 2009: Senior Fellow at RICAM
Memberships in Editorial Board
- Journal of Uniform Distribution Theory (since 2014)
- Advances in Mathematics of Communications (since 2019)
- Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequence (CCDS) (since 2020)
- Finite Fields and Their Applications (2005-2024)
- Designs, Codes, and Cryptography (2011-2024)
- Cryptography (2016-2020)
- Turkish Journal of Mathematics (2019-2020)
- International Journal of Computer Mathematics: Computer Systems Theory (2014-2019)
Research interests
- Finite Fields, Number Theory, Coding Theory, Pseudorandom Numbers, Cryptology, Combinatorics
Publications
- Some highlights of Harald Niederreiter's work. / Larcher, G; Pillichshammer, F; Winterhof, A et al.
Applied Algebra and Number Theory: Essays in Honour of Harald Niederreiter (on the occasion of his 70th birthday). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. S. 1-18 (Cambridge University Press).