Biography
Jesús García Rodríguez is a graduate in Mathematics and in Computer Engineering from the University of Murcia, being awarded with the Extraordinary Award in both degrees and the Award to Academic Excellence in Simultaneous Study programmes. In 2019, he obtained a Research Initiation Grant in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, where he started working on the development of privacy-preserving identity management solutions in the context of the Horizon 2020 OLYMPUS project. At the same time, he obtained a master’s degree in New Information Technologies. In 2020, he was awarded an FPU grant from the Ministry of Science to pursue a PhD with a research project on novel and practical identity management mechanisms that avoid a single point of failure in the identity provider and provide privacy through zero-knowledge proofs. The project resulted in key research publications on attribute-based credentials (p-ABC) and privacy-preserving identity management in IoT. In 2024, he completed his PhD defence rated with a grade of Excellent Cum Laude and International Mention. During the thesis, Jesús completed a four-month funded predoctoral research stay at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, where he worked under the supervision of Dr. Stephan Krenn to develop modular extensions for p-ABCs and start a research line on biometric-binding for this kind of credentials. He has also carried out research visits other institutions, like the UBITECH premises in Athens, and collaborated with many international groups in research projects. These activities have led to the collaboration with groups from 28 countries.
The ambition, quality and utility of his research have been recognized with its application and validation in several international projects funded by the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Research Framework Programmes, as well as national projects funded by the Spanish Government. Jesús’ expertise on applied cryptography for identity management earned him a position as a postdoctoral researcher on Research in Secure and Intelligent Distributed Computing at University of Murcia, working in the research line on identity solutions for the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW), data spaces, and machine-to-machine scenarios. In this direction, he is now also focusing in developing a new research line in the group for the transition to post-quantum cryptography in identity management scenarios in the context of the POSEIDON project.
Apart from 9 publications in high-impact journals, he has contributed papers to the proceedings of 8 peer-reviewed international conferences and has been invited as a guest speaker in 7 different conferences. Jesús has also participated in activities fostering dissemination in the scientific community, taking part in the programme committee of two international workshops and co-chairing the SECPID workshop with Dr. Sebastian Ramacher. He has also performed dissemination activities to the industrial sector, including the transfer of technological advancements on SSI to the ODINS spin-off, and the participation in a high TRL transfer project with Logalty Solutions S.L, Truidentity. His participation in training activities, whitepapers, blogs and diffusion videos demonstrate his commitment to transferring scientific knowledge to the community and society. Lastly, to ensure the impact of his research on key fora and policies, he has disseminated results to standardisation bodies like ETSI CYBER and ETSI ESI.