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.

Dr. Dominik Schallmoser is a senior researcher in the Institute for Data Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology. In 2017, he obtained his PhD from the University of Salzburg, Austria. He works on principles of distributed computing with a focus on the analysis of randomized algorithms for distributed systems.

Dr. Anh Tu Hoang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Hamburg University of Technology. He holds a Bachelor's in Information Technology and a Master's in Information Systems from Vietnam National University and completed his PhD at the University of Insubria, Italy, in 2020. His research focuses on privacy and security in data sharing, machine learning, and blockchain platforms.

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.

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.

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.

Avik Banerjee is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Institute for Data Engineering at the TU Hamburg. After finishing his bachelor's studies in Computer Science and Engineering in 2017, he received his master's degree in Computer Science from the Universität Stuttgart in 2021. His research focuses on the optimization of smart contracts.

Leandro Rometsch is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Institute for Data Engineering, TU Hamburg. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in IT Security from TU Darmstadt. His professional experience includes software development focusing on cryptographic primitives and layer-2 scaling solutions, as well as the compliant integration of blockchain technology in the financial sector.