Meet the team

The EDI team includes specialist researchers, scientists and engineers.

EDI Team - August 2025
EDI team members (July 2025): Daniel, Wenrui, Mojtaba, Laura, Christina, Aggelos, Zeeshan (left to right)
Aggelos Kiayias

Aggelos Kiayias

Position: Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy; Director, Blockchain Technology Lab; Chief Scientist, IOG

Research Areas: Cryptography, computer and information security, blockchain technologies, distributed systems, e-voting, privacy, multiparty protocols

Mojtaba Tefagh

Mojtaba Tefagh

Position: Blockchain Programme Manager & Senior Researcher

Research Areas: Blockchain technologies, decentralised consensus, business development, industry and community engagement

Daniel Woods

Daniel Woods

Position: Lecturer in Cybersecurity

Research Areas: Cybersecurity economics, privacy, insurance, risk quantification, crisis response

Zeeshan Jan

Zeeshan Jan

Position: Research Engineer

Research Areas: Blockchain applications, software engineering, research and development in blockchain systems

Wenrui Zuo

Wenrui Zuo

Position: Research Associate

Research Areas: Decentralised content moderation, blockchain-based social media, Web3 financial-social interactions, off-chain blockchain governance

Laura Antunes

Laura Antunes

Position: Research Assistant

Research Areas: Blockchain decentralisation metrics, network-layer analysis of blockchains, cybersecurity

Christina Ovezik

Christina Ovezik

Position: PhD Student

Research Areas: Blockchain decentralisation, system measurement, decentralised systems

 

Former Team Members

  • Dimitris Karakostas – Research Associate

    Worked on provable security and decentralised finance systems.

  • Mary Milad – Research Assistant

    Contributed data analytics and statistical modeling for decentralisation metrics.

     

EDI Team - February 2024
EDI team members (February 2024): Dimitris, Aggelos, Mary, Christina, Daniel, Zeeshan, Mojtaba (left to right)

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