Aida Manzano Kharman is a researcher specialising in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), decentralised systems and cryptography. She holds a PhD in Distributed Ledger Technologies and an MEng in Design Engineering from Imperial College London.

Her research develops fair and resilient decentralised systems. It spans privacy-preserving data markets, consensus and proof-of-position algorithms, secure dispute resolution, and governance mechanisms for distributed ledgers. Her work combines mathematical modelling, cryptographic techniques and agent-based simulation to study how these systems behave under adversarial conditions.

Aida has also worked on machine learning, robotics and sustainable technology projects. This multidisciplinary background informs her interest in building digital infrastructure that protects privacy, distributes value fairly and remains robust when participants cannot be assumed to behave honestly.