I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and part of the Pietrzak Group .

My current main research interests are:

• Scalable Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
• Efficient and Resilient Tree Communication Networks
• Parallel Smart Contract Execution
• Blockchain Scaling Solutions
• Human-centric Blockchain Design

I am also an avid supporter and contributor to open-source software. I am a maintainer and co-founder of Ldtteam and contributed to numerous open-source projects with combined over 300 million downloads such as the Chia BLS library.

News

February 2025 Our Paper “Anthemius: Efficient & Modular Block Assembly for Concurrent Execution” was accepted at FC 25.

Recent Select Publications

• 2025: Anthemius: Efficient & Modular Block Assembly for Concurrent Execution.
• 2023: Practical Limitations of Ethereum’s Layer-2
• 2021: Kauri: Scalable BFT Consensus with Pipelined Tree-Based Dissemination and Aggregation
• 2020: HRM Smart Contracts on the Blockchain - Emulated vs Native
• 2020: Fireplug: Efficient and Robust Geo-Replication of Graph Databases
• 2018: Policy-Based Adaptation of a Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Graph Database.

Ongoing Projects

• Wonderboom: Efficient and Scalable Aggregation Trees
• CoBRA: A Universal Strategyproof Confirmation Protocol for Quorum-based Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
• Kauri: BFT Consensus with Pipelined Tree-Based Dissemination and Aggregation