Biography
Shermin is the director of the Research Institute for Crypto Economics at the Vienna University of Economics, and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. She is the author of the book “Token Economy” and works on the Intersection of Technology, Art & Society.
She is also advisor of Jolocom, a blockchain based identity protocol. In the past, she was a curator of TheDAO, on the advisory board of the Estonian E-residency as well as Wunder, a decentralized Art Museum. She regularly speaks at conferences and consults on Blockchains especially in the context of sustainability and social impact of future technologies. Shermin did her PhD in IT-Management at the Vienna University of Economics. 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.
In 2019, Shermin wrote Token Economy: How Blockchains and Smart Contracts Revolutionize the Economy
Expertises
- Cryptoeconomics
- Blockchain
- Social impact of future technologies.
Languages
- English
- German