Violetta Weger

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track
Appointment
2024
Institution
Technical University of Munich
Department
TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology
Focus Group
Applied Algebra
Short CV
Prof. Weger studied mathematics at the University of Zurich and obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Rosenthal. From 2021 to 2022, Prof. Weger was a postdoctoral researcher at UCD, Ireland and at TU Munich with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship. From 2022 to 2024, Prof. Weger was a Marie-Curie Fellow at TU Munich and at TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Since August 2024, Prof. Weger has been a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM and a Fellow of TUM-IAS.
Research Interests
Algebraic Coding Theory, Cryptography
Selected Publications
- Marco Baldi, Sebastian Bitzer, Alessio Pavoni, Paolo Santini, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Violetta Weger. “Zero Knowledge Protocols and Signatures from the Restricted Syndrome Decoding Problem”. PKC 2024. Abstract
- Eimear Byrne, Violetta Weger. “Bounds in the Lee Metric and Optimal Codes. Finite Fields and Their Applications”, Volume 87, 102151, 2023. Abstract
- Violetta Weger, Karan Khathuria, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Massimo Battaglioni, Paolo Santini, Edoardo Persichetti. “On the Hardness of the Lee Syndrome Decoding Problem. Advances in Mathematics of Communications”, 2022.
Abstract - Eimear Byrne, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Karan Khathuria, Violetta Weger. “Density of Free Modules over Finite Chain Rings. Linear Algebra and its Applications”, Volume 651, 2022. Abstract
- Giacomo Micheli, Severin Schraven, Violetta Weger. “Local to global principle for expected values. Journal of Number Theory”, Volume 238, 2022. Abstract