Core expertise
Blockchain
Cryptography
Biography
Rafael is a lecturer in the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity. He received his doctoral degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, where he worked in the Cryptography and IT Security Research Group.
Before joining Monash, Rafael worked for IOHK, the blockchain company that created the cryptocurrency Cardano.
His research interests lie in blockchain, cryptography, and their many intersections with machine learning, information theory and privacy.