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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich . I am part of the Secure & Trustworthy Systems Group lead by Prof. Dr. Shweta Shinde . I obtained a joint Ph.D. (cotutelle) in computer science from the University of Luxembourg and the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Radu State (University of Luxembourg) and Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert (Technical University of Munich). My Ph.D. focused on the automated security assessment and improvement of smart contracts.
Prior to that, I have been working as a security researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) near Munich, Germany.
The rise of Ethereum has lead to a flourishing decentralized marketplace that has, unfortunately, fallen victim to frontrunning and Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) activities, where savvy participants game transaction orderings within a block for profit. One popular solution to address such behavior is Flashbots, a private pool with infrastructure and design goals aimed at eliminating the negative externalities associated with MEV. While Flashbots has established laudable goals to address MEV behavior, no e
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