Prof. dr. Enes Pasalic is one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of design and analysis of symmetric ciphers, and the study of cryptographically interesting discrete combinatorial structures, especially Boolean functions. He participated in the development of the S-box primitive in the new encryption standard used in the 3G mobile network and in the SNOW 3G streaming code for use in the 3GPP standard.

In 2017 he was the recipient of the Scientific Excellence Award in the field of science and technology and in 2019 he was a recipient of the Zois Award for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of cryptography. Presently, Enes Pasalic is a professor and researcher at UP FAMNIT and UP IAM.