BFT2Chain

Christian Berger (University of Passau) received the BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, he started working as a research associate and PhD candidate at the assistant professorship of security in information systems. His research interests include Byzantine fault tolerance, resilient distributed systems as well as blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

Kai Bleeke (Technische Universität Braunschweig) completed his MSc in computer science at TU Braunschweig in 2021. He now works as a research associate and PhD candidate at the Distributed Systems Group under Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza. His research interests include Byzatine fault tolerance and consensus algorithms.

Signe Rüsch (Technische Universität Braunschweig) received her BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from TU Braunschweig in 2014 and 2017, respectively, after which she started working as a research associate and PhD candidate at the Distributed Systems Group under Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza. Her research interests involve Byzantine fault tolerance, distributed ledger technologies, and trusted execution environments.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (Technische Universität Braunschweig) is a professor at the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig. There he leads the Distributed Systems Group of the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networking since January, 2012. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Erlangen- Nuremberg in 2001 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 until 2011 he led the Distributed Systems Group at the Department of Computer Sciences 4, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as assistant professor. Since his time as PhD student he has lead project work at the national level. First in the DFG-funded AspectIX project, next shortly after finishing his PhD as a principal investigator in REFIT, DanceOS, and recently BATS. DanceOS is a project of the DFG priority program 1500 with multiple partners, whereas BATS is an interdisciplinary research group composed of researchers from computer sciences, electrical engineering, and biology. At the EU-level he leads TUB in the Horizon2020 project SERECA. Rüdiger Kapitza is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, steering committee member of the IFIP DAIS conference, program committee member of numerous venues including IEE EDCC, ACM/Usenix Middleware and ACM EuroSys.

Prof. Dr. Hans P. Reiser (University of Passau)