Florian is a research assistant at Max Planck Institute for Informatics Saarbrücken, Germany (MPII). He started his Ph.D. in Berlin and recently moved to Saarbrücken with the relocation of the INET research group. In the past, he has investigated DNS and interdomain traffic, mainly at IXPs and is currently researching routing infrastructure, focusing on BGP. Coming from system administration background, he has a strong interest in understanding the challenges in building reliable, and secure, distributed systems.
