Joan Daemen

Joan Daemen
Born	1965 (age 51–52) Achel, Limburg, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Fields	Cryptography
Alma mater	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Thesis	Cipher and Hash Function Design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Joos Vandewalle René Govaerts
Known for	Rijndael, Keccak

Joan Daemen (Dutch pronunciation: [joːˈɑn ˈdaːmə(n)]; born 1965) is a Belgian cryptographer who co-designed the Rijndael cipher with Vincent Rijmen, which was selected as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001. More recently, he co-designed the Keccak cryptographic hash, which was selected as the new SHA-3 hash by NIST in October 2012. He has also designed or co-designed the MMB, Square, SHARK, NOEKEON, 3-Way, and BaseKing block ciphers. In 2017 Joan Daemen won the Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography "for the development of AES and SHA3".

In 1988, Daemen graduated in electro-mechanical engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He subsequently joined the COSIC research group, and has worked on the design and cryptanalysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. Daemen completed his PhD in 1995, at which point he worked for a year at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse, Belgium. He subsequently worked at the BACOB bank, Banksys, Proton World and then STMicroelectronics.