Dr. Alexandra Mikityuk has received her Diploma in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. Since 2010 she mainly dealt with media distribution and processing topics. In 2013 she joined the Security in Telecommunication research group in TU Berlin, where she received her PhD on embedded security for remote media processing. In 2017 she became a head of blockchain architecture in a blockchain group of Deutsche Telekom T-Labs.