CV

Professional Experience

  • 2021-now: Senior Data Scientist, Glassnode

  • 2019-2021: PostDoc, FAU

  • 2014-2019: Research Scientist and Lecturer, FAU

Higher Education

  • 2014-2019: PhD in computer science (Dr.-Ing.), FAU

  • 2011-2013: MSc in computer science, FAU

Areas of expertise

  • Bitcoin protocol and wider ecosystem

  • On-chain data and analysis

  • Scalability (GCP, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Parallel Computing)

Skills

  • Python: Jupyter, pandas, SciPi, NumPy, Matplotlib, Plotly

  • Bitcoin Core: API, ZeroMQ, Mempool, internal data structures

  • Bitcoin protocol: specifications, transaction-output types, SegWit, Schnorr/Taproot

  • Lightning: lnd API, LN graph analysis

  • GCP: BigQuery, Dataproc, Kubernetes, Argo, Docker

Grants, Honors & Awards

  • 2019 Honorable mention in the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award

  • 2019 ETI grant from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

  • 2019 PhD awarded with honors (summa cum laude)

  • 2018 Gauss Award for best technical paper at the 33rd International Supercomputing Conference

  • 2014 Master of science awarded with honors

  • 2014 Master thesis honored by Gesellschaft für Informatik

  • 2013-2014 Germany stipend

  • 2012-2013 Germany stipend

  • 2012 Bachelor thesis honored by Gesellschaft für Informatik

  • 2011 Oksar-Karl-Forster stipend