BIOGRAPHY

Cornelius works on distributed systems, incentive mechanisms, and privacy-preserving technology. Prior to embarking on his Ph.D. research, Cornelius received a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He graduated with a Master’s Thesis on distributed role-based access control and held a position at Mercedes Benz afterwards until 2025. Through his work on UAV communication systems at ESG, he started appreciating the superior resilience of distributed structures and shortly after became a decentralization advocate. Since then, he has been involved in decentralization projects in the automotive industry and contributed to the field of decentralized technologies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cornelius Ihle focuses on decentralised systems in the corporate and academic sector. His goal is to remove barriers in the Open Science and Open Source community and promote a sharing community within academia and his affiliated institutions.

Research Topics:

• Distributed Ledger Technologies
• NAT Traversal
• Decentralised Storage
• Content Addressed Filesystems
• Zero Knowledge Proofs
• Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs)

TEACHING & PROJECTS

I always have an open ear for research ideas within my field and gladly supervise your thesis project. If my expertise is needed for your next paper, don’t hesitate to contact me.