Biography

I am a junior research group leader for data protection and sovereignty with Fraunhofer FIT. I joined Fraunhofer FIT in 2023 after concluding my PhD with COMSYS at RWTH Aachen University.

My main research interests are the scenario-specific application of blockchain technology as well as the design of privacy-enhancing systems.

Blockchain technology, as introduced by Bitcoin, constitutes a virtually unchangeable log of events, e.g., financial transactions, and thereby eliminates attacks such as equivocation. In my research, I am interested in general properties of blockchains as well as their applications, e.g., to improve the trustworthiness of existing systems and to discover entirely novel use cases.

Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) usually comprise basic principles and technologies that can be utilized to increase user privacy. With respect to privacy-enhancing systems, I am interested in developing new architectures that allow to utilize PETs in novel ways and thereby further reduce the trust users are required to put into the online services they use.