Stefan Kitzler joined the Complexity Science Hub as a PhD candidate in May 2021.

His research interests center around data analysis on cryptoasset, especially in Decentralized Fiance. In 2023, he did a research stay at University of Montreal at the EconCrime Lab. Currently, he works in the team of Financial Innovation and is doing his PhD thesis in computer science at TU Wien. In addition, he is a Junior Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.

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.