About

Hi, I am glad you are here!

I am currently a blockchain consultant at Common Prefix, where I do research, consulting, and engineering on blockchains and applied cryptography. Prior to that I briefly worked at DFNS, building on threshold ECDSA and threshold key management protocols, and at IBM Research Zurich, building scalable large-scale consensus protocols.

I obtained my PhD at the Crypto group of the University of Bern, where I had the privilege to be advised by Prof. Christian Cachin. My PhD thesis was on Distributed Protocols with Threshold and General Trust Assumptions. My research interests lie in the fields of distributed systems and applied cryptography, bridging theory and practice.

Before that I worked as a software engineer at Entersoft, a leading company in the sector of financial technology (aka web2), where I learned to appreciate qualitative code, good design patterns, and clean architecture.

I obtained my BSc and MSc in computer science from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens. My master thesis was on network security with deep learning methods at Netmode Lab.

Concerning hobbitshobbies, I enjoy dancing and I teach greek folk dances. I regularly watch the Lord of the Rings (and the less regularly the first Hobbit film). I am also learning to play the violin. On a more refreshing side, I sometimes brew tasty beers. Cheers!

” Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.”
Σωκράτης
“I know one thing, that I know nothing.”
Socrates