PROTOCOL - Key Persons


Abby Silin

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator
We are excited to welcome Abby Silin as a Research Administrator at Protocol Labs.

Adam Marblestone

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator
  • Research As an Advisor
We are delighted to announce that Adam Marblestone will be joining PL Research as an advisor. Adam is a neuroscientist and technologist who has conducted research in brain circuit mapping and quantum information theory.

Adrian Lanzafame

Job Titles:
  • Research Advisor

Akosh Farkash

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer
ConsensusLab are excited to welcome Akosh Farkash to the team! Akosh joins us from IOHK and CasperLabs, where he helped develop robust and performant blockchain systems, mainly working in Scala and Rust.

Alan Ransil

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Alfonso de la Rocha

Job Titles:
  • Technical Program Manager
Alfonso de la Rocha joins Protocol Labs Research Alfonso is joining the Resilient Networks Lab (ResNetLab) as a Research Engineer. He comes to PL from Telefónica R&D, where he worked on blockchain-based technologies such as TrustOS. We asked Alfonso about his journey to PL, the projects he will be working on in the ResNetLab, and his thoughts about future technological developments:

Anca Nitulescu

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Anca Nitulescu joins Protocol Labs Research Anca Nitulescu is joining CryptoLab (Update: now CryptoNetLab) as a Research Scientist. After obtaining their PhD in cryptography at ENS Paris, they worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Aarhus University and as Chief Cryptographer at Cosmian before coming to Protocol Labs.

Andrei Tonkikh

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Axel Cortés Cubero

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Axel Cortés Cubero joins CryptoEconLab We are excited to announce that Axel Cortés Cubero has joined CryptoEconLab, where he will explore the dynamics of cryptoeconomic networks as a research scientist. We asked Axel about his journey to Protocol Labs, the CryptoEconLab projects he will be working on, and his thoughts about future technological developments:

Brian Vohaska

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Britt Yazel

Job Titles:
  • Research Program Manager

Dario Catalano

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

David Dalrymple

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

David Dias

Job Titles:
  • Research Director

Denis Kolegov

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer
We're excited to welcome Denis Kolegov to the ConsensusLab team, as our newest Research Engineer. Denis joins us after a diverse career in computer security, crossing Tomsk State University, F5 Networks, BI.

Dennis Trautwein

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Guillaume Michel

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Guy Goren

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Guy Goren joins ConsensusLab as a Research Scientist ConsensusLab is excited to welcome Guy Goren to the team! Guy joins us from Technion, where his PhD research focused on distributed data structures and algorithms, and particularly blockchain protocols.

Guy Wuollet

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Henri Stern

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Ioannis Caragiannis

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Jeromy Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Research Advisor

Joe Zimmerman

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Joel Gustafson

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Juan Benet - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Karola Kirsanow

Job Titles:
  • Network Research
  • Research Administrator

Liam O'Hagan

Job Titles:
  • Research Program Manager

Liz Bryson

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator
We are excited to welcome Liz Bryson as a Research Administrator at Protocol Labs. We asked Liz about what brought her to Protocol Labs, the projects she'll be working on, and her thoughts on future technological developments:

Marko Vukolić

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Matej Pavlovic

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Matej Pavlovic joins ConsensusLab as a Research Scientist ConsensusLab is pleased to welcome Matej Pavlovic to the team. Matej joins us from IBM Research, where he was recently doing research on MirBFT, among other topics in blockchains and distributed systems.

Matteo Campanelli

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Matteo Campanelli joins CryptoNetLab as a Research Scientist CryptoNetLab is pleased to welcome Matteo Campanelli to the team as a research scientist. Matteo previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University (with Claudio Orlandi) and at the IMDEA Software Institute (with Dario Fiore).

Michael Hammersley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Program Manager

Nadia Eghbal

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Nicolas Gailly

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Patrick Woodhead

Job Titles:
  • Technical Program Manager for the Retrieval Markets
We are pleased to introduce Patrick Woodhead, the Technical Program Manager for the Retrieval Markets initiative. Research into data retrieval systems will be critical to the development of a CDN for Web3, and Patrick is helping to guide these efforts at Protocol Labs.

Petar Maymounkov

Job Titles:
  • Technical Program Manager

Raymond Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research
We are excited to welcome Raymond Cheng to the Protocol Labs Research team. We asked Raymond about his journey to Protocol Labs, the projects he will be working on, and his thoughts about future technological developments:

Rosario Gennaro

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Sarah Azouvi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Program Manager

Sergey Fedorov

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Engineer
Sergey Fedorov joins ConsensusLab as a Research Engineer ConsensusLab are excited to welcome Sergey Fedorov to the team! Sergey joins us from NEC Laboratories Europe, where he spent the last 5 years working on security topics, including blockchain technologies.

Sílvia Bessa

Job Titles:
  • Research
  • Research Engineer
We are excited to welcome Sílvia Bessa to the Protocol Labs Research team. We asked Sílvia about her journey to Protocol Labs, the projects she will be working on, and her thoughts about future technological developments:

Tom Mellan

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
CryptoEconLab is pleased to welcome Tom Mellan to the team as a research scientist. Tom has spent the last two years modeling infectious diseases at Imperial College London. The backbone of this research centered on the messy intersection of science, maths and policy; asking simple questions like: what's happened and why?

Trent Davis

Trent Davis joins Protocol Labs Research Trent Davis is joining the PL Research team as a Research Administrator. Trent received degrees in business and economics at Washington State University and Cornell University, did research at Cornell, and helped develop the Cornell Blockchain club and the Smart Contract Research Forum.

Vivien Quéma

Job Titles:
  • Research As an Advisor to ConsensusLab
  • Research Engineer
We are happy to announce that Vivien Quéma will be joining PL Research's ConsensusLab as a research advisor. Vivien is a Professor of Computer Science at Grenoble INP and a member of the LIG laboratory.

Volker Mische

Job Titles:
  • Research Advisor

Will Scott

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Willes Lau

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Yann Vonlanthen

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher

Yiannis Psaras

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Yiannis Psaras joins Protocol Labs Research Yiannis (Ioannis) is joining the Resilient Networks Lab, which he helped get off the ground after becoming an advisor to PL in July 2019. Yiannis is currently a fellow of the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and a Lecturer at University College London, where he has worked on a number of topics within the broad field of networking, with a significant focus on Information-Centric Networking (ICN).

Yolan Romailler

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Zixuan (ZX) Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist