Laurence Lerch
PhD Student
(Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics)
CV
Since 2021 doctoral student in theology with Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger with a dissertation project on the ethical evaluation of current and upcoming cryptographic methods in the context of privacy and information security, with a focus on post-quantum encryption.
Studies of Catholic Theology at LMU Munich with stays at Pontifical Gregorian University and Angelicum in Rome (Mag. Theol.: 2016 to 2020).
Studies of Computer Science at LMU Munich with stays at TU Munich and University of Lugano (B.Sc.: 2018 to 2020; M.Sc. since 2020 ongoing).
Several student assistantships in research and teaching at different chairs and institutes of computer science and theology (LMU Munich, TU Munich, Fortiss).
Research Interests
- Ethical Evaluation and Importance of IT Security and Privacy
- Quantum Computing, Cryptography and Complexity Theory (in Computer Science)
- Algorithmic Hate Speech Detection
- Formalizations of Ethics (e. g. Deontic Logic)
- Digital Humanities, especially with NLP