“Science is never boring”

Nora Khayata is a doctoral researcher and member of the Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) at the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Her research focuses on compiler tools and techniques to close the gap between different implementations of privacy-preserving protocols and automatised protocol generators. She works towards deployable privacy-preserving applications and solutions for real-world problems.

Watch the video embedded below to find out why she and other female researchers at TU Darmstadt find it great to work in science.

The advancement of female students and scientists is an important topic in the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING. And not only because equality of men and women in science is firmly embedded in the statutes of our funding body, the German Research Foundation (DFG). Equal opportunities for all are a matter close to our hearts. We support female students with mentoring and the Female Student Travel Award, and also offer our female scientists and female post-docs many opportunities for further qualification.

• The CROSSING Female Student Mentoring and Networking Program encourages students to pursue careers in science. An experienced female researcher is available as a mentor. In addition to discussions and consultations, mentees have the opportunity to attend an international conference on CROSSING-related topics and to get to know the scientific community in the company of their mentor. Application is possible at any time.
• CROSSING, in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center MAKI, the Research Training Group Privacy & Trust for Mobile Users and the LOEWE Center emergenCITY, offers a Female Student Travel Award . With this award, we recognize particularly good achievements by female students of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology. We are very pleased that many of the award-winning students – like Nora Khayata, who won the award in 2022 – also find their way into research and take up doctoral studies after graduation. The application period for 2023 will open at the beginning of the summer term.

The overview page Equal Opportunities in Research Associations of the Equal Opportunities Office gives a good overview of all initiatives at TU Darmstadt.