Felix Hoops

Faculty of Informatics
Chair of Informatics 19
Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis)

Technical University of Munich
Boltzmannstraße 3
85748 Garching bei München, Germany

Email: felix.hoops [at] tum.de
Room: 01.12.056
Contact Languages: German & English

I offer thesis supervision for motivated students. If you would like to propose a topic related to my research interests or get in touch to find a suitable one, please e-mail me with your CV and transcript of records attached.

Currently, I do not have any openings for supervision.

Curriculum Vitae

Felix Hoops is a research associate at the chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems at Technical University of Munich (TUM) since May 2021. He holds a master's degree in Informatics from TUM and wrote his thesis on "Threat Analysis, Evaluation, and Mitigation for Smart Contracts Endorsed by TLS/SSL Certificates". During his studies, Mr. Hoops spent a semester abroad at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Research Interests

Prominent technologies and areas of interest include:

Digital Credentials
Self-Sovereign Identity
Blockchain & DLT

Research Projects

Ethereum Foundation Academic Grant: An Efficient Status List for the Ethereum Ecosystem
We aim to build a new blockchain-backed status list for Verifiable Credentials that is scalable and preserves the privacy of all stakeholders as much as possible without compromising the basic functionality of a status list.

GAIA-X 4 Production, After-Sales and PLC - Across Automated Driving
The Gaia-X project aims to build a federated data infrastructure for Europe. As part of the GAIA-X 4 Future Mobility project family, this project focuses on the secure implementation of digital twins for the automotive sector in the context of automated driving through an open distributed data ecosystem (ODDE). Spanning the entire product lifecycle, these twins are envisioned to improve product verification, validation, and update strategies. more here ...

Digital Credentials for Higher Education Institutions (DiBiHo)
The project was launched to explore a trusted, distributed, and internationally interoperable infrastructure standard for issuing, storing, presenting, and verifying digital academic credentials in a national and international context. Therefore, the project aims to define goals in digital credentials for German Higher Education Institutions independent of specific service providers or vendors. more here ...

MyScore - Blockchain Technology for International Credit Mobility
The goal of the study is to research the potential of blockchain technology for improving international student mobility - with a focus on digital recognition processes. Different use cases on how blockchain can optimize and automate the current recognition processes at two faculties are evaluated. Based on this evaluation, one scenario is selected to be implemented as a prototype system, demonstrating the capabilities of such a blockchain-based process. more here ...

Teaching (in reverse chronological order)

Term	Level	Title	Type	Role
WS 24/25	Master	SEBA Lab Course	Lab Course	Organizer
SS 24	Master	Software Engineering for Business Applications - Master Course	Lecture & Projects	Advisor
WS 23/24	Master	SEBA Lab Course	Lab Course	Organizer
SS 23	Master	Blockchain-based Systems Engineering	Lecture	Co-Organizer
WS 22/23	Master	SEBA Lab Course	Lab Course	Organizer
SS 22	Master	Blockchain-based Systems Engineering	Lecture	Co-Organizer
WS 21/22	Master	SEBA Lab Course	Lab Course	Advisor
SS 21	Master	Blockchain-based Systems Engineering	Lecture	Co-Organizer

Publications (in reverse chronological order)

[Ho24c]	Hoops, F., & Matthes, F. (2024, July). A Middleware Architecture for Self-Sovereign Identity Authentication and Authorization. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS) (pp. 79-85). IEEE.
[Ho24b]	F. Hoops and F. Matthes, "A Universal System for OpenID Connect Sign-ins with Verifiable Credentials and Cross-Device Flow," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dublin, Ireland, 2024, pp. 296-298, doi: 10.1109/ICBC59979.2024.10634364.
[Ho24a]	Hoops, F.; Matthes, F.: A Decentralized Identity Bridge for Usable Blockchain-backed Self-Sovereign Identity. Poster presented at the CfC St. Moritz Academic Research Track 2024, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 2024. https://www.blockchain.uzh.ch/cfc-smart24.
[Oz24b]	Burak Öz, Filip Rezabek, Jonas Gebele, Felix Hoops, and Florian Matthes. 2024. A Study of MEV Extraction Techniques on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–297.
[Ho23]	F. Hoops, A. Mühle, F. Matthes and C. Meinel, "A Taxonomy of Decentralized Identifier Methods for Practitioners," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS), Athens, Greece, 2023, pp. 57-65, doi: 10.1109/DAPPS57946.2023.00017.
[Oz23a]	Öz, B., & Hoops, F. (2024). Systematization of knowledge: the advent of a new incentive, maximal extractable value. In The Elgar Companion to Decentralized Finance, Digital Assets, and Blockchain Technologies (pp. 241-264). Edward Elgar Publishing.
[Ho21]	Hoops, F.: Threat Analysis, Evaluation, and Mitigation for Smart Contracts Endorsed by TLS/SSL Certificates Master's Thesis: Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2021.
[Ho17]	Hoops, Jan Felix. "An introduction to Public and Private Distributed Ledgers." Network 41 (2017).