Dr. rer. nat. Christian Berger

I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science in 2014 and 2017, respectively, from the University of Passau, Germany. In 2018 I worked as software engineer for the msg systems AG. In 2019, I began working as a research assistant and PhD candidate under Prof. Dr. Hans Reiser at the Chair of Security in Information Systems at the University of Passau. My research interests include Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus and state machine replication algorithms, as well as distributed ledger technologies. In November 2024, I graduated as a Dr. rer. nat. at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Passau.

Memberships:

• Member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik)

Open-Source Activity:

• Maintainer of the BFT-SMaRt project on GitHub (a modern replication library for BFT)
• Owner of the Delphi-BFT project on GitHub (a tool for automating large-scale simulations of replication protocols)

Review Activities:

• Reviewer for the following journals:
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • ACM Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Science of Computer Programming
  • Blockchain: Research and Applications
  • Computer Communications

Awards:

• Best Paper Candidate @ SRDS’19
• Prof. C.V. Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award @ SRDS’21
• EDCC’22 Distinguished Paper Award
• Middleware’24 Best Paper Runner-up

Interests:

• Reliable distributed systems
• Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus and replication
• Distributed ledger technologies, blockchain systems, and DeFi