Laura Hetz

about me

Hi, I’m Laura Hetz, a doctoral student at ETH Zürich with the Applied Cryptography group. My research interests lie in the design, evaluation, and implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies, and anonymous communication systems.

Before, I worked on private mobile contact discovery with Christian Weinert and Thomas Schneider at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

publications

Scaling Mobile Private Contact Discovery to Billions of Users Laura Hetz, Thomas Schneider, Christian Weinert. ESORICS’23

work & teaching experience

Fall 2024: Head Teaching Assistant Privacy Enhancing Technologies (1st half on cryptography), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant for Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Spring 2024: Teaching Assistant for Computer Science II, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2017 - 2020: Security Consultant for Identity and Access Management, DXC Technology, Germany
2014 - 2017: Various internships at HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and DXC Technology in Germany

education

since August 2023: Doctoral Student, ETH Zürich
2019 - 2023: M.Sc. IT Security, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
2016: Griffith College Dublin, Ireland
2014 - 2017: B.Sc. Applied Computer Science, DHBW Stuttgart, Germany