Leander Jehl is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His research work is centered around distributed protocol, blockchain, and decentralized systems. Leander’s main insterests range from design and formal verification to implementation and experimental evaluation. In the context of decentralized systems, his main interest lye in the design and formal analysis of incentive mechanisms.

Leander is the deputy leader of the relab research group and was a co-PI of the BBChain research project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. During the year 2021-2022 as head of the distributed systems group at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, as a stand-in for Prof. Kapitza. In 2016 he received his PhD from the University of Stavanger, for his work on Reconfiguration of Replicated Systems. He aims to teach both theoretical knowledge and hand on skills, giving courses on web-programming and blockchain technology on the bachelor and master level.