Stefan Kitzler joined the Complexity Science Hub as a PhD candidate in May 2021. His research interests center around data analysis on cryptoassets, especially in Decentralized Finance.

Currently, he works in the Digital Currency Ecosystems research group at CSH, is doing his PhD thesis in computer science at TU Wien, and is a Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. In 2023, he did a research stay at University of Montreal at the EconCrime Lab. Since March 2024, he serves as a University lecturer at TU Wien and worked as a Technical Advisor at the BIS Innovation Hub on the Data Atlas project in early 2025.

Stefan received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in technical physics from TU Wien. During his studies, he did an internship in the Center for Energy at the AIT and continued the cooperation with the AIT for his master’s thesis.

After his graduation in 2018, Stefan worked in the Austrian energy market on computational projects for the power and gas clearing before transitioning to blockchain research.