Marcel Döttling is a tenured faculty member at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken. The focus of his research is lattice-based cryptography, obfuscation, and generally cryptographic schemes that achieve optimal or near-optimal communication complexity. From 2017 to 2018, he was assistant professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg. Prior to that, he was a postdoc in the group of Sanjam Garg at UC Berkeley from 2016 to 2017, and a postdoc in the Crypto Group of Aarhus University from 2014 to 2016. He received his PhD in 2014 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.