Benjamin Kraner is a PhD student in the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies group. Before starting his PhD, Benjamin obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Zürich. His background in economics provides him with a unique perspective on the design and implementation of DLTs, particularly with respect to the economic incentives that underlie these systems. Benjamin's research interests include the study of consensus mechanisms, which are fundamental to the functioning of blockchain and DLTs. He is particularly interested in the economic incentives that are built into these systems and how they affect the behaviour of network participants. His work aims to explore the impact of these incentives on the security, scalability, and efficiency of DLTs.

Filip Rezabek received the Master of Science degree in communications engineering from the Technical University of Munich, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Chair of Network Architectures and Services. His research interests include network security, applied and threshold cryptography, and distributed systems resilience and robustness. Besides, he is active in the area of TSN with focus on intra-vehicular networks and smart manufacturing. For both areas are important aspects of reproducible experiments

Jakub Jedlinský is a system analyst, crypto OG and expert on modelling money flows in alternative currencies and stress testing business plans. He is a co-founder of Altlift, a crypto-consulting company. He has teached courses about currency systems focusing on crypto and DLT at Prague University of Economics and Business since 2014. Jakub learnt stock-flow consistent modelling from Prof. Steve Keen who supervised his Ph.D. dissertation at Kingston University London.

Ivan is currently an associate at the Brno University of Technology and he focuses on applied research in the area of system security. Ivan is interested in designing, implementing, and optimizing novel systems and solutions, emphasizing system security. In particular, Ivan focuses on blockchain-based authentication schemes, consensus protocols, electronic voting in blockchains, decentralized identity, and even central bank digital currency (CBDC) with minimized trust.

Ivan has a Ph.D. in the area of adversarial intrusion detection in network traffic from Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology (BUT FIT), Czech Republic (2016) and he obtained an associate professorship at the same university in 2016 with habilitation called Towards Secure Decentralized Applications and Consensus Protocols in Blockchains.
Ivan earned a Master of Science degree from the BUT FIT (2012) in the areas of intrusion detection and supervised machine learning.

Ivan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD and worked on a project aimed at testing of security aspects of blockchains and designing new solutions and protocols. Before that, he worked in SUTD on a project focusing on insider threat detection - the application of machine learning for the detection of insider threats. Ivan is the main author of SmartOTPS - the 1st OTP scheme for smart contract wallets.

Kristian Kostal is leader of the Blockchain & FinTech research group at Faculty of Informatics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He is a Slovak representative in the European Blockchain Partnership (European Commission). He is very active in research-driven development, worked as an advisor to crypto companies, developed a full cryptocurrency network backed with gold, did at least 10 audits of smart contracts in Ethereum, and developed several contracts in Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot. He was among the first in Slovakia to play with Colored Coins in Bitcoin. Besides his expertise in blockchain interoperability, you can talk with him about anything Ethereum and Bitcoin related, but according to his Rust experience, he can be a good chit-chat also for Polkadot and Solana.