I work for the Ethereum Foundation as a Project Manager on ecosystem development, focusing on coordinating academic research and some contributions around promoting open source, advising on governance, and supporting European digital sovereignty. I also contribute to the project “Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy” at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA), University of Zurich.
Throughout 2018-2023, I was Governance Lead at Safe, a Gnosis spin-out and VitaDAO, an early DeSci DAO, contributed to Colony, DAOstack's Genesis DAO, DAO Incubator, Bundesblock, and explored the use of blockchain in international development cooperation at GIZ Blockchain Lab.
Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, user, policymaker, journalist or simply interested in a conversation, I would be glad to hear from you.
Publications
- Conference paper “Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” [first author, with Parminder Kaur Makode, Claudio J. Tessone,and Uwe Serdült], 2026
- Report “Blockchain In Africa: Opportunities And Challenges For The Next Decade” [contributor], 2020
- Master’s dissertation “Decentralising Power, Competence and Incentives – A Case Study on Emerging Visions in the Blockchain Space” [author], 2018
- Book chapter “Blockchain-based Decentralized Business Models in the Sharing Economy: A Technology Adoption Perspective” [co-author, with Prof. Andranik Tumasjan], 2018
- Conference paper “Co-Creation and User Involvement in a Living Lab: An Evaluation of Applied Methods” [first author, with Dr. Julia M. Jonas and Prof. Kathrin M Moeslein], 2017
- Magazine article “In Consensus Algorithms We Trust” [author], 2017
Talks
- Panel on d/acc the Swiss Way and co-curated the 'Swiss Governance and Democracy' track at Zuitzerland, Laax, 2025
- Talk on Digital Democracy in DAOs at Ethereum Zuri.ch, Zurich, 2025
- Short talk on DAOs and OUI at Open and User Innovation Conference, Hamburg, 2023
- Talk on “Chicken-and-egg: How DAOs Become Decentralised – or Not.” at What’s Governing Web3?, Melbourne, 2022
- Talk on “A User Centric Approach to DeSci and Tokenomics” at Funding the Commons, New York, 2022
- Remote talk on “GIZ Blockchain Lab: Experimental Workflows Meet Experimental Technologies” at Ukiyo Conference, Osaka, 2019
- AMA on “Blockchain for Good” at Z2X by DIE ZEIT, Berlin, 2018
- other Contributions