Stefan Dziembowski is professor at the University of Warsaw. He is interested in theoretical and applied cryptography. Dziembowski received an MSc in computer science in 1996 from the University of Warsaw, and a PhD in computer science in 2001 from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He was a postdoc at ETH Zurich, CNR Pisa and the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where he joined the faculty in 2008. In 2010 he moved to the University of Warsaw, where he leads the Cryptography and Data Security Group. His papers have appeared in leading computer science conferences (FOCS, STOC, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, TCC, LICS), and journals (Journal of Cryptology, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and Communications of the ACM). He has also served as a PC member of several international conferences, including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), and the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP). He served as the general chair of the Twelfth Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC'15). He is a recipient of an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, an FNP Welcome Grant and a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2006-2007). He is a co-author of two papers that won Best Paper Awards (Eurocrypt 2014 and IEEE S&P 2014).