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