Supported takedown of over 370,000 illegal dark web sites

Mar 2026 · Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime

Methods developed jointly with the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime supported a coordinated international operation. It disrupted criminal infrastructure responsible for over 370,000 illegal dark web sites.

INTERPOL New Technologies Forum

Sep 2025 · INTERPOL

Serving as academic partner for INTERPOL's New Technologies Forum in 2025 and again in 2026, bringing investigators and researchers together to align on evidence-based responses to emerging digital threats.

Connecting cases with the Bavarian Cybercrime Prosecution Office

Nov 2023 · Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime

Joint method development that links related cryptoasset investigations across cases, reducing investigative effort and shortening time-to-resolution for victims of fraud and extortion.

GraphSense: open-source cryptoasset analytics platform

Jan 2024

Continuously released open-source platform used by researchers, investigators, and industry. Recent releases added Tron support and tracing across DEXs, bridges, and cross-chain address clusters.

Iknaio Cryptoasset Analytics: research-to-commercial spin-off

Jan 2023

Spin-off translating GraphSense research into production infrastructure used by financial institutions, regulators, and investigators across Europe and beyond.

Engagement in European policy debate

Aug 2025

Recurring engagement with European policy and business audiences on the implications of digital assets, cybercrime, and decentralized finance. Examples include serving on the scientific committee of the European Forum Alpbach and organising its seminars on these topics from 2023 to 2025.

Evidence for central banks and financial supervisors

May 2025

Research that informs central bank and supervisory thinking on the architecture, risks, and measurability of decentralized finance. Examples include BIS working papers on the technology of decentralized finance and on the verifiability of Total Value Locked in DeFi, produced with the BIS Innovation Hub.

Open Blockchain Intelligence Standards

Oct 2025

Founding editor of the Open Blockchain Intelligence Standards (OBIS) initiative, a bottom-up community effort creating open, vendor-neutral specifications for shared terminology, attribution, and data exchange across investigators, supervisors, and tool providers.

W3C Open Annotation Data Model

Feb 2017 · W3C

Contributed to the W3C standard for interoperable web annotations, used by digital library, scholarly publishing, and digital humanities communities.

ResourceSync Framework Specification

Apr 2014 · NISO, Open Archives Initiative

Co-edited the ResourceSync framework, a NISO/OAI standard that lets third-party systems remain synchronised with a server's evolving web resources. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

data.europeana.eu: Europeana Linked Open Data

Jun 2013 · Europeana Foundation

Co-developed the Europeana Linked Open Data pilot, which published metadata for 20 million cultural-heritage objects from European institutions as Linked Open Data. The pilot set the model that libraries, museums, and archives now follow when sharing their collections on the web.