{"id":"ansgar-dietrichs","title":"Ansgar Dietrichs","content":"**Ansgar Dietrichs** is a Berlin-based researcher and software engineer at the [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) [Foundation](https://iq.wiki/wiki/foundation), where he co-leads core protocol development for [Layer 1](https://iq.wiki/wiki/layer-1) scaling. He is a prominent figure in the [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) research community, known for his work on key [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) Improvement Proposals (EIPs), account abstraction, and scaling solutions. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-fbNhvRVNRPnZPnPu) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-Pvaj1Zwbk5CsKrXd)​\n\n## Education\n\nAnsgar Dietrichs completed his secondary education at Canisius-Kolleg Berlin, earning his Abitur in 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2017) and a Bachelor of Science in Economics (2020) from Freie Universität Berlin. He later earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin in 2019.  [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-fbNhvRVNRPnZPnPu) \n\n## Career\n\nAnsgar Dietrichs is a researcher at the [Ethereum Foundation](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum-foundation-ef), where he has contributed to [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) research since June 2022. Prior to this, he worked as an R\\&D Engineer at ConsenSys from October 2019 to May 2022, focusing on [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) core development. Earlier in his career, he served as a student assistant in the Machine Learning Group at Technische Universität Berlin (May 2017 – April 2019), conducting research in quantum chemistry and implementing machine learning models. Dietrichs has also held roles as a freelance back-end web developer at ABIHOME (June – November 2016) and as an intern at the German Federal Ministry of Finance (September – October 2015), where he supported research on international financial policy.  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