Benjamin Erb
Research Fellow at Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University
Blaustein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Erb is a research-focused computer scientist with 15 years’ experience designing data-intensive and distributed systems, currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University. He specializes in stream-oriented, history-aware platforms—using techniques like event sourcing—to enable temporal processing and scalable handling of evolving graph structures. Benjamin bridges computer science and psychology, investigating both technical privacy-preserving mechanisms for open research data and the psychological drivers of users’ privacy decisions. His work combines rigorous platform architecture with empirical sensitivity to confidentiality tensions in open science, making him adept at translating interdisciplinary research questions into practical system designs. Based in Blaustein, Germany, he brings deep academic experience from doctoral and long-term research roles at Ulm University, with a knack for applying theoretical insights to real-world, privacy-sensitive data processing challenges.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology at Universität UlmDr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at Ulm University
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (34)
concurrent10
image9
javascript9
commons9
concurrent-programming9
architectures9
scalable9
creative-commons9
image-processing8
photography7
darktable7
gtfs7
beamer7
image-decoder6
readable6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
berb/diploma-thesis
Mar 2012 - May 2018
Diploma thesis "Concurrent Programming for Scalable Web Architectures" released under Creative Commons license
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 6 years 2 months
architecturescommonsscalableconcurrent-programmingdiploma
UlmApi/livemap
Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 1 year
visualizationdata-setstransportationgtfspublic-transportation
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