Lange earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 from the
Technical University of Braunschweig. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the
Universität Duisburg-Essen. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by
Gerhard Frey and
YoungJu Choie, concerned
Efficient Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves. After postdoctoral studies at
Ruhr University Bochum, she became an associate professor at the
Technical University of Denmark in 2005. She moved to the
Eindhoven University of Technology as a full professor in 2007. At Eindhoven, she chairs the
coding theory and cryptology group and is scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information. She is also the coordinator of PQCRYPTO, a European multi-university consortium to make electronic communications future-proof against threats such as
quantum factorization. She is one of the main authors of The
Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, published in 2005. ==See also==