Dr.-Eng. Vasily Sartakov is a Research Associate in the Large-Scale Data and Systems Group of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research interests include trusted systems, persistent systems, and confidential computing. Vasily obtained his PhD from TU Braunschweig under supervising of Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza in 2019. Prior joining TU Braunschweig and Imperial, he was leading for six years the R&D company “ksys labs” involved in technology transfer, applied research, and experimental development in the area of systems security, in particular, microkernel-based operating systems.