Dr. Sebastian Bürgel

Changing data privacy for good: hoprnet.org

The ETH Zurich spin-off Validity Labs is the first Swiss-based education and service company focusing on blockchain and other decentralized technologies. I led the technical team, client projects and design decentralized solutions. Beyond that I was involved in sales, outreach and I regularly spoke at major technical conferences.

SONECT re-invents the way we withdraw cash today. SONECT's ATM-as-a-service enables any merchant to act as an ATM and hand out cash to customers. I built the blockchain-based infrastructure of SONECT, pitched to investors and got the seed round funded. Apart from having the technical lead I was guiding the regulatory work, making SONECT a financial intermediary.

Over the course of my PhD I have been developing a label-free microfluidic analysis platform for single cells and multicellular spherical model-organs utilizing electric impedance spectroscopy.