Dr Ciara Rafferty is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Secure information Technologies, where she leads research into advanced cryptography and data security.  She was a post-doc in the H2020 SAFEcrypto project on post-quantum or quantum-safe cryptography.  She is QUB lead on the  UK Quantum Communications Hub (Phase 2) and participates in a range of activities, including as Co-I on the Innovate UK AQuASeC project led by Toshiba Europe Limited.  Her research interests include homomorphic encryption, post-quantum cryptography, privacy-preserving technologies and hardware acceleration and optimisation of cryptosystems.

Currently teaching on EEECS  UG module on the introduction of cyber security:

CSC2056 - Systems Security and Cryptography (20CATS)