Team

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schulte is a Professor at TU Hamburg and heads the module Cross-Blockchain Transactions of CDL-BOT. In 2010, Stefan finished his PhD at TU Darmstadt summa cum laude. He joined TU Wien in 2011 and finally moved to TU Hamburg in 2021. His research interests are in the areas of blockchain technologies and the Internet of Things.

Dr. Matteo Maffei is professor and head of the Security and Privacy Group at the Vienna University of Technology. In CDL-Bot he heads the module for Lightweight Blockchain Protocols. After 11 years at Saarland University, he moved to Vienna University of Technology in 2017. His research interests include the formal verification of security properties and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Michael Sober is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Institute of Data Engineering at TU Hamburg. After finishing his bachelor studies in Software & Information Engineering in 2018, he received his master's degree in Software Engineering & Internet Computing from TU Wien in 2020.

Elmira Ebrahimi is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Institute of Data Engineering, TU Hamburg. She graduated with an M.Sc. in software engineering from Tehran University. Her research interests are in blockchain security and privacy through the investigation of zero-knowledge proofs.

Giulia Scaffino is a PhD student at TU Wien. After her MSc degree in Nuclear Physics in 2019, she now works in the Security and Privacy Group of the Institute of Logic and Computation at TU Wien.

Markus Scherer is a Ph.D. student in the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien. Before joining the group, he received his master's degree in Computational Intelligence from TU Wien in 2016. His research is focused on the static analysis of bytecode languages.

Subhra Mazumdar is a Project Assistant at Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien. She completed her Master's in 2018 from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata India and pursued Ph.D. in Cryptology and Security Research Unit from the same institute. Her research interests are in Scalability and Privacy in Blockchain, Data Privacy, and Combinatorial Optimization.

Max Kobelt is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree at TU Hamburg. He is also a student assistant in CDL-BOT.

Dr. Anh Tu Hoang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology. He obtained the Bachelor of Information Technology and the Master of Information Systems at the University of Science, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2020, he defended his PhD at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. His research focuses on the development of privacy and security protection mechanisms for data sharing, machine learning training, and blockchain platforms.