Philipp is the president of the DeSci Foundation. He is also the scientific lead at DeSci Labs, as well as a professor of social science genetics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Carla is the host of the Future of Science Series, as well as a Product Manager and Designer at DeSci Labs where she focuses on making new scientific infrastructure work for users.

David heads R&D at Protocol Labs. He previously worked on large open source software projects at Azure, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. David also co-founded Hark, MTS, and Formatta.

Erik co-authored the original FAIR Guiding Principles and leads the GO FAIR Foundation. His research background is in evolutionary biology.

Davide leads the Multi-Agent Decisions Lab. He is a professor of mathematics and economics at the University of Groningen and the University of Amsterdam.

George leads the Synthetic Biology lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. George developed the first direct genomic sequencing method and helped initiate the Human Genome Project. His innovations have provided the foundational research for Editas, Gen9bio, Vertitas Genetics and other companies.

Gustav is a metascience researcher with interest in transparency, reproducibility, and openness in science. He is a professor of neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and a national coordinator and domain specialist with the Swedish National Data Service.

Juan is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs. He invented IPFS and Filecoin and is actively growing the ecosystem of projects building on these technologies.

Abdel is genetics researcher at Amsterdam UMC. His research is centered around psychiatric, behavioral, and population genetics.

Anna is a metascientist focused on credibility and reliability of scientific results. She is a professor of economics at Stockholm School of Economics and holds editor positions at the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics and the Journal of Political Economy.

Gideon is a metascientist with focus on replication and verification of research. He is also a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Magnus is a researcher with interest in metascience, economics, and genoeconomics. He is a professor of economics at Stockholm School of Economics.

Silke is a mathematician and lawyer with an interest in blockchain. Previously she was CLO/GC at Gnosis DAO.

Marcus leads the UK Reproducibility Network. He is also a professor of biological psychology at University of Bristol.

Lars leads the Labor Dynamics Institute at Cornell University. He is also a data editor at the American Economic Association.

Thomas is a metascience researcher and professor for Computational Biology at Massey University.

Mark is the co-founder of DataUnion where he focuses on data Sovereignty and data lineage. He also founded Quriosity Studio to support data, AI, and blockchain founders.

James is a mathematician and entrepreneur with a strong vision of the way in which people will access knowledge in the future. A second-time founder, he was the former CEO of the Wolfram Institute, a research organization that he co-founded with Stephen Wolfram. James worked previously at Wolfram Research, Inc., where he was a product manager and Stephen’s research assistant. He began his career in political analysis in Ghana and Washington, D.C.