Mosbah Alown is a Lecturer in Cyber Security at De Montfort University. His research examines how blockchain and cryptographic techniques can be applied to strengthen trust and integrity in democratic processes, with a particular focus on the design of verifiable, privacy-preserving electronic voting systems.
His doctoral research, completed at De Montfort University in December 2026, developed a scalable, privacy-preserving blockchain framework for verifiable ranked-choice online voting. The framework employs zkSNARKs and Layer 2 proof-batching to maintain near-constant on-chain verification costs regardless of election size, eliminates reliance on a trusted tallying authority through decentralised threshold decryption, and enforces single-vote eligibility via anonymous participation tokens and nullifiers.
Mosbah holds a BSc in Computer Science (2015) and an MSc in Computer Science (2019), both from Al al-Bayt University, Jordan, and joined De Montfort University in 2022 to undertake doctoral research in Cyber Security.
His future research programme extends this work to central bank digital currencies, privacy-preserving identity verification, and confidential smart contracts, continuing a broader interest in establishing verifiable trust in digital systems without reliance on centralised authorities.