BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH CENTER - Key Persons


Alla Petukhina

Alla Petukhina holds a M.Sc. in economics from the Ural state university, Russia. She received her Ph.D. degree in statistics and econometrics from Humboldt-University zu Berlin in 2018. Her research interests are focused on asset allocation strategies in crypto-currencies market.

Brenda Lopez-Cabrera

Job Titles:
  • Blockchain Energy Research

Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen is a professor at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow and Mercator Fellow of the International Research Training Group 1792 - High Dimensional Non Stationary Time Series at the School of Business & Economics in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studies the econometric models for the CRIX family and applies the text mining techniques to digital currencies.

Danial Saef

Job Titles:
  • Education

Daniel Traian Pele

Prof. dr. Daniel Traian Pele graduated Mathematics (2000) and got his Master in Stochastic Processes and Theoretical Statistics at the University of Bucharest (2002). He got his Ph.D. in Statistics (2007) and habilitation in Statistics (2019) at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He currently serves as a Professor at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, teaching Statistics of Financial Markets and Time Series. The corresponding research profile is that of a data scientist, focused on statistical modelling of financial markets.

Katarina Adam

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Interest

Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Statistics

Michael Burda

Job Titles:
  • Research Interest

Piotr Wójcik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences

Raul Cristian Bag

Raul Cristian B g and is a PhD student at HU Berlin. His general research interests are Machine Learning, MLOps, Research Transparency and Reproducibility and Decentralised Finance. He currently has the role of Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages where he will be teaching seminars that include a range of subjects from Statistics and Data Analytics to Blockchain. Currently, he also works part time as a senior cloud engineer at a private corporate company, which is the worldwide leader in the area of biometry. This helps him keep in touch with the latest industry trends and technologies. Email:bagcrist@hu-berlin.de

Stefan Lessmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Information Systems at the Humboldt - Universität
Stefan Lessmann is Professor of Information Systems at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on applications of deep learning techniques in the broad scope of marketing and risk analytics.

Thorsten Hens

Job Titles:
  • Research Interest

Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Job Titles:
  • Härdle Is Ladislaus Von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics at the Humboldt - Universität Zu Berlin
  • Spokesperson & Coordinator
Wolfgang Karl Härdle is Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the theoretical core driver behind the project and gives scientific advice.