From March 25 to 29, 2025, Rodrigo Rodrigues, a researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and INESC-ID, carried out a research visit to the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI) in Saarbrücken, Germany. The visit served to strengthen international collaborations and to foster scientific dialogue on critical topics in distributed systems and emerging technologies.
During his stay, Rodrigo Rodrigues met with two of MPI’s scientific directors. Dr. Krishna Gummadi, whose work focuses on fairness in blockchain technology and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), shared ongoing research into promoting equity and transparency in decentralized systems. Dr. Peter Druschel, an expert in secure distributed systems, contributed valuable perspectives on emerging challenges and solutions in the field of system security.