I mainly work on cryptographically relevant Boolean functions such as APN functions and their generalizations. In this context, I am particularly interested in connections to design theory. As a fully trained secondary school teacher, I am also always interested in questions of mathematics education, especially those related to pure mathematics.

After completing my PhD in 2021, I worked for two years as a teacher and one year in mathematics education. Since 2024, I have returned to discrete mathematics.

Publications

• Equivalence Problems of Almost Perfect Nonlinear Functions and Disjoint Difference Families. Dissertation. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 2021. https://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36521 
  
  
• with Yue Zhou. A lower bound on the number of inequivalent APN functions. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 186 (2022), Paper No. 105554, 38 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2021.105554
  
  
• with Yue Zhou. The number of almost perfect nonlinear functions grows exponentially. In: J. Cryptology 34.4 (2021), 37 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-020-09373-w
  
  

Talks (Mathematics)

• Kolloquium Bildungsforschung with Stefanie Rach, April 24, 2024, Magdeburg (Germany)
• KOLKOM 2019, November 8-9, 2019, Paderborn (Germany)
• Seminar talk, September 10, 2019, Changsha (China)
• Fq14, June 3-7, 2019, Vancouver (Canada)
• Combinatorics 2018, June 3-9, 2018, Arco (Italy)
• GDMV 2018, March 5-9, 2018, Paderborn (Germany)

Mathematics Education

Mathematics

I was awarded the Otto-von-Guericke Teaching Award 2020 for my online teaching during summer semester 2020,.