CV

Work experience

• 2024 – now: PhD student
  Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  Supervisor: Lorenz Panny
  Topic: Isogeny-based cryptography and abelian varieties
  TUM personal page

• 2024: Research internship
  Inria Saclay, Palaiseau, France.

  Supervisor: Benjamin Smith
  Topic: Computation of isogenies of abelian varieties

• 2021 – 2023: Junior customer success manager, developer
  CCmath, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Worked as part of a customer-support team for issues related to time-series forecasting and workforce management, and as a backend software developer.
  Projects: We developed a new scheduling engine for small workforce-constrained healthcare facilities.

Education – maths

• 2024: Erasmus+ Programme. M2 Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique
  

  Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.

  Post-quantum cryptography, provable security

• 2022 – 2024: MSc in Mathematics
  University of Pisa.

  Master’s thesis on isogenies of abelian varieties, supervised by Benjamin Smith and Davide Lombardo.

• 2019 – 2023: BSc in Mathematics
  University of Pisa.

  Bachelor’s thesis on the model theory of restricted real analytic functions, supervised by Alessandro Berarducci.

• 2019 – 2024: Undergraduate 5-year course in Mathematics
  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.

Education and work experience – piano

• 2018 – 2023: Piano accompanist

  I occasionally worked as an accompanist pianist, for singers and instrument players during studies and performances.

• 2019 – 2023: 1st level Piano degree
  Conservatorio Pietro Mascagni, Livorno, Italy

  Teacher: Giovanni Nesi
  Final thesis on Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues with analysis of a selected work, supervised by Paolo Sullo.

Publications

Breaking digital signatures from tropical matrix semirings (2026) Alessandro Sferlazza pdf

Hensel-lifting black-box algorithms and fast trace computation for elliptic-curve endomorphisms (2026) Lorenz Panny, Damien Robert, Alessandro Sferlazza. pdf

Simpler and Faster Pairings from the Montgomery Ladder (2025) Giacomo Pope, Krijn Reijnders, Damien Robert, Alessandro Sferlazza, and Benjamin Smith. pdf

Talks

Computing traces of endomorphisms via p-adic lifting (December 2025) slides

Elliptic curve pairings as a by-product of Montgomery ladders (July 2025) slides

Montgomery ladders already compute pairings (April 2025) slides

Montgomery ladders already compute pairings (April 2025) slides

Attended events

• July 2025 Séminaire C2. Inria, Paris, France
• May 2025 Isogeny Club Brainstorm Days, affiliated with Eurocrypt 2025. Madrid, Spain
• April 2025 SQIparty workshop. University of LLeida, Spain
• March 2025 Swissogeny Day. IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
• March 2025 Young Researcher Crypto Seminar (YRCS). University of Konstanz, Germany
• January 2025 Séminaire C2. Loria, Nancy, France
• September 2024 Isogeny Days. KU Leuven, Belgium
• May 2024 Isogeny Club Brainstorm Days, affiliated with Eurocrypt 2024. Zurich, Switzerland
• April 2024 CAIPI Symposium. Rennes, France
• March 2024 QSI Spring School in Post Quantum cryptography. Porto, Portugal
• January 2024 I-Sage-ny Days. KU Leuven, Belgium

Teaching

Teaching assistant: Analysis für Informatik - Calculus for Computer science (Winter semester 2025)

Teaching assistant: Cryptography and Cryptanalysis (Summer semester 2025)

Teaching assistant: Coding Theory (Summer semester 2025)

Teaching assistant: Analysis für Informatik - Calculus for Computer science (Winter semester 2024)