State of Cryptoeconomics Research[Lecture Series FS2019]

Dr Shermin Voshmgir

Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the interdisciplinary Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, founded in January 2018. The aim of this research lab is to coordinate all Blockchain related research activities in a multi facettet and interdisciplinary way, build a competence center that connects researchers with practitioners and translates the know how into teaching. Prior to that she created the BlockchainHub in Berlin. She is currently an advisor of Jolocom, a blockchain based identity protocol and Wunder, a decentralized Art Museum. In the past, she was a curator of TheDAO and on the advisory board of the Estonian E-residency. Shermin also speaks at conferences and consults on implications and applications of Blockchain and other DLTs, with special focus on the “Token Economy”. The first dedicated research focus is on sustainability and social impact of future technologies – the intersection of Blockchain with AI and IoT. Shermin did her PhD in IT-Management at the Vienna University of Economics at the Department for Information Systemes. The topic of her thesis was to evaluate the impact of XML with real option analysis. Furthermore, she studied film and drama in Madrid. Her past work experience ranges from internet start-ups, IT consulting & filmmaking. She is Austrian, with Iranian roots, and lives between Vienna and Berlin.