Víctor Gayoso Martínez was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1975. He obtained his Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2002, and his Ph.D. from the same university in 2010. In 1999, he started working at Telefónica Móviles, where he collaborated in topics related to smart cards, cryptography, SIM Toolkit applications, PKI security, GSM / UMTS communications, etc. Likewise, he attended various international meetings and conferences, making presentations and collaborating with other companies in the sector in the development of specifications and standards.
In 2009 he started to work at the Applied Physics Institute (Instituto de Física Aplicada, IFA) that belonged to the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), where he carried out his doctoral thesis Java Card Implementation of Encryption and Decryption Protocols Based on Elliptic Curves (Implementación en Tarjetas Inteligentes Java Card de Protocolos de Cifrado y Descifrado Basados en Curvas Elípticas) directed by Luis Hernández Encinas and Carmen Sánchez Ávila. The doctoral thesis was approved on December 14, 2010 with an Excellent Cum Laude qualification.
After a brief stay as a teacher at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, since 2012 he has developed his working activity at the Department of Information Processing and Cryptography located at the Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información, ITEFI), which belongs to the Spanish National Research Council. There, he has been involved in the research, design, and development of cryptographic applications and the analysis of security applications and protocols. His main topics of interest are public-key cryptography, elliptic curves, post-quantum cryptography, smart cards, biometrics, similarity search techniques, and Java and C++ programming.
As a result of his research work, he has participated in the publication of more than 25 articles in specialized journals and has contributed more than 40 papers presented in national and international conferences. In addition, he is co-author of the books "Criptografía con curvas elípticas" (Cryptography with elliptical curves, 2018, ISBN 978-8400104320) together with Luis Hernández Encinas and Agustín Martín Muñoz) and "Ciberseguridad" (Cibersecurity, 2020, ISBN 978-8413521190) with David Arroyo Guardeño and Luis Hernández Encinas.
