Samer Hassan

Activist and researcher, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He was awarded with EU’s largest personal research grant, an ERC Grant of 1.5M€, to work on Blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) for bootstrapping a new type of Collaborative Economy. Find more at http://p2pmodels.eu.

He has carried out research in distributed systems, social simulation and artificial intelligence from positions in the University of Surrey (UK) and the American University of Science & Technology (Lebanon), apart from Harvard and UCM. Coming from a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Social Sciences, he has more than 45 publications in those fields. Engaged in free/open source projects, he co-founded the Comunes Nonprofit and the Move Commons webtool project, and has experience in multiple communities and grassroots initiatives. He was involved as UCM Principal Investigator in the FP7 P2Pvalue project on the development of webtools for Commons-based peer production. Follow Samer on Twitter: @samerP2P.