Stefan Kitzler has been a PostDoc at the Complexity Science Hub since 2026, where he completed his PhD in computer science from TU Wien. His research interests center around data analysis on cryptoassets, especially in Decentralized Finance.

He works in the Digital Currency Ecosystems research group at CSH since 2021, and is a Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. In 2023, he did a research stay at the 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 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 digital currency research.