Egor Ermolaev is a PhD candidate and Doctoral Researcher at the FINATRAX research group in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. Egor applies Design Science Research to focus on data privacy in various domains such as e-commerce, reporting systems, and blockchains.
Egor actively participates in international conferences, presenting his research on different continents. He has contributed to governmental projects, such as the EBSILUX project under the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), collaborating with the Ministry for Digitalisation of Luxembourg. This project, co-funded by the European Union, integrates Luxembourg into the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure and implements national-level use cases like Diploma Digitalization.
Egor received his Diploma with Honors in “Information-analytical security systems” from the Omsk State Transport University. He was awarded the “Georgius Agricola Scholarship” to study Distributed Systems Engineering at the Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany, in 2016. He also worked as a scientific collaborator in the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group at the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland, where he earned the “Master Research Scholarship (MaRS)” in 2018. His professional achievements include victories in the Infrachain Hackathon in 2021 and 2022, and qualification for the grand final in the W3B Hackathon 2024. Prior to his PhD studies, Egor worked as a Software Engineer for crypto/e-commerce startups.
