MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Marzio Mula

26 February 2026

We are delighted to announce that QuSAC researcher Dr. Marzio Mula has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are prestigious European grants that support post‑doctoral researchers of any nationality with advanced training, interdisciplinary mobility, and innovative research. The 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call attracted a record 17,066 applications; 1,610 projects were selected for funding, representing an indicative budget of €404.3 million and a highly-competitive success rate of 9.6 %.

Marzio will join the CANARI team at Inria Bordeaux and the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux for a two‑year fellowship. His project, IsoPODS (Isogeny‑Based Primitives, Optimisations, and Dynamical Systems), will develop new post‑quantum cryptographic primitives and proof systems based on isogenies, and investigate discrete dynamical systems on elliptic curves.

This fellowship will strengthen the collaboration between QuSAC and Inria Bordeaux and create further opportunities for joint research in post‑quantum cryptography.

Congratulations, Dr. Mula! We look forward to following your progress.

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From January 13th to January 26th Sebastian Spindler participated in the first two weeks of the OIST Thematic Program “Isogeny-based Cryptography” in Onna (Okinawa, Japan). The mornings started off with many interesting research talks, and afterwards the participants formed smaller groups to brainstorm on various topics in the current landscape of isogeny-based cryptography.

Asiacrypt 2025

From the 8th until the 12th of December, members of the QuSAC group visited Asiacrypt, the largest cryptography conference of Asia. The 2025 edition took place in Melbourne, Australia. It was a valuable opportunity to speak with other researches and learn about recent research. In total, 3 papers accepted at the conference were (co-)authored by members of the QuSAC group.

Swissogeny Day Lausanne

On November 26th Shernyce Duncombe, Marzio Mula and Sebastian Spindler participated in the fourth edition of the Swissogeny Day, which was hosted at the EPFL in Lausanne. The one-day workshop kicked off with research talks on generalized lollipop attacks, an alternative approach to SQIsign incorporating level structures, and an attack on the active security of PEARL-SCALLOP.

Research Visit and Seminar Talks @ INRIA Bordeaux

In November 2025, two researchers from the QuSAC lab, Marzio Mula and Sebastian Spindler, visited the CANARI project-team at Inria Bordeaux and the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux. During their stay, they gave two seminar talks at the Algorithmic Number Theory Seminar (Séminaire de Théorie Algorithmique des Nombres).

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Talk @ Crypto 2025

On August 18th, Sebastian Spindler presented the paper “More Efficient Isogeny Proofs of Knowledge via Canonical Modular Polynomials”, which arose from a collaboration between the QuSAC group and CODE colleague Sören Kleine, remotely during the 45th edition of the CRYPTO conference.