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
Publications as TUM-IAS Fellow
