List of Crypto-Academics

​An alphabetic list of academics who are actively working on aspects of cryptocurrencies/assets/tokens, and/or blockchain technology.

Requirements/Defintions:
  1. Academic: Primarily receive income from an academic/affiliated institution (not a company). It is NOT required that you have a PhD to satisfy this. I'm trying to collect sources likely to produce unbiased, quality research.  
  2. Academic work in cryptos/blockchain: Blog posts do not count. Notes/reports can count depending on their quality. I understand that publication lags are long, so viewable working papers are sufficient. Sustained work in crypto is required to be added to and remain on this list. 
  3. Active: A reasonably up-to-date website that contains 2 or more papers, with at least one produced in the last three years, on this topic. The website can be SSRN, ResearchGate, ORCID, public, departmental, personal, etc.  The goal of this page is to facilitate research transmission and reduce duplication. Hunting down various papers based on a year-old CV listing is not helpful.  
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If you satisfy these requirements but are not listed, send me an email with your website, discipline/category, and twitter handle (if you have one) so that I can add you! I will add additional categories if needed, the ones listed are not meant to be exclusive. 

Academic Research Centers (Last Update: September 2, 2021)
  1. BSAFE Network: http://bsafe.network/
  2. UT Austin - Blockchain Initiative: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/centers/blockchain
  3. Cambridge - Center for Alternative Finance (@CambridgeAltFin): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/
  4. Cornell - Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (@initc3org): www.initc3.org/​
  5. Imperial College London Centre: Centre for Global Finance and Technology
  6. MIT - Digital Currency Initiative (MIT-DCI): http://dci.mit.edu/
  7. MIT - Cryptoeconomics Lab (MIT-CE): mhttps://mitsloan.mit.edu/cryptoeconomics-lab/
  8. RMIT - Blockchain Hub (@BlockchainRMIT): https://rmitblockchain.io/​
  9. Stanford Center for Blockchain Research: https://cbr.stanford.edu/index.html
  10. University College London - Center for Blockchain Technologies (@uclcbt): blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk​
  11. Wharton Cryptogovernance: https://cryptogov.net/

Individual Researchers (Last Update: June 13, 2018)
​Banking/Payment Systems
  1. Darcy Allen (@DarcyWEAllen): https://darcyallen.net/
  2. Raphael Auer (@RaphAuer): https://sites.google.com/site/raphaelauer/home
  3. Chris Berg (@chrisberg): http://chrisberg.org/about/
  4. James Chapman: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/james-chapman/
  5. Rodney Garratt: https://rodneygarratt.wordpress.com/
  6. Kim Huynh: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/kim-huynh/
  7. Alistair Milne: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=148057​
  8. Francisco Rivadeneyra: https://sites.google.com/site/rivadeneyr/main2
Computer Science
  1. Phil Daian (@phildaian): pdaian.com/
  2. Ittay Eyal (@ittayeyal): http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/ittay/ 
  3. Philipp Jovanovic (@Daeinar): https://zerobyte.io/ 
  4. Ari Juels: http://www.arijuels.com/
  5. Shin'Ichiro Matuso: http://people.cs.georgetown.edu/matsuo/
  6. Andrew Miller (@socrates1024): soc1024.ece.illinois.edu/ 
  7. Malte Möser (@maltemoeser): maltemoeser.de/ 
  8. Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker): randomwalker.info/ ​
  9. Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor): hackingdistributed.com/ 
  10. Nicholas Weaver (@ncweaver):  http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/
Economics - Not Classified Elsewhere
  1. David Andolfatto: https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/andolfatto/frp/
  2. Bruno Biais: https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/bruno-biais?tab=working-papers
  3. Aleksander Berentsen: https://wwz.unibas.ch/en/berentsen/ 
  4. Christophe Bisière: https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/christophe-bisiere?tab=working-papers
  5. Wilko Bolt: https://www.dnb.nl/en/onderzoek-2/onderzoekers/overzicht-persoonlijke-paginas/dnb150117.jsp
  6. Michael Bordo: https://sites.google.com/site/michaelbordo/
  7. Jamal Bouoiyour (@Bouoiyour_B): https://ideas.repec.org/f/pbo522.html
  8. Markus Brunnermeier: https://scholar.princeton.edu/markus/publications/blockchain-economics
  9. Matthieu Bouvard: https://sites.google.com/site/matkbouvard/
  10. Andrea Canidio: http://andreacanidio.com/
  11. Catherine Casamtta: https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/catherine-casamatta?tab=working-papers
  12. Jonathan Chiu: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1666745
  13. Sinclair Davidson (@cryptoeconomico): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=290796
  14. ​Gerald "Jerry" Dwyer: http://www.jerrydwyer.com/
  15. Ben Fung: www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/ben-fung/
  16. Neil Gandal: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1489
  17. Hanna Halaburda: https://works.bepress.com/halaburda/
  18. Campbell Harvey: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=16198
  19. Joshua Hendrickson (@RebelEconProf ): https://sites.google.com/site/joshuarhendrickson/
  20. Scott Hendry: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/scott-hendry/
  21. Garrick Hileman (@GarrickHileman) : www.garrickhileman.com/ 
  22. ​William Luther (@WilliamJLuther): http://www.wluther.com/ 
  23. Tyler Moore: https://tylermoore.ens.utulsa.edu/​
  24. Mikayla Novak(@NovakMikayla): https://mikaylanovak.com/about/
  25. Maureen O'Hara: https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile/id/mo19
  26. Gina Pieters  (@Prof_Pieters): You're on my website. Click "research" for my papers and data files.
  27. Julien Prat: https://sites.google.com/site/julienpratecon/research
  28. Jason Potts (@profjasonpotts): http://jasonpotts.academia.edu/research
  29. Michel Rauchs (@mrauchs):  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2698302 
  30. Daniel Sanches: https://sites.google.com/site/drsanche/
  31. Linda Schilling: https://sites.google.com/site/lindamarleneschilling/research
  32. Warren Weber: www.webereconomics.com/
​Finance
  1. Hugo Benedetti: www.hugobenedetti.com/
  2. Elie I. Bouri: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pbo906.html
  3. Eric Budish: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/
  4. Daniel Blaseg: www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Blaseg
  5. Daniele Bianchi(@WhitesPhD): https://whitesphd.com/ 
  6. Lin William Cong: https://sites.google.com/site/linwilliamcong/home
  7. Gianna Figà-Talamanca: www.researchgate.net/profile/Gianna_Figa-Talamanca
  8. Sean Foley: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1017238
  9. John Griffin: http://www.jgriffin.info/
  10. Paul Momtaz: www.paulmomtaz.com/
  11. Talis Putnins: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=855598
  12. Maarten van Oordt: www.bankofcanada.ca/profile/maarten-van-oordt/​
  13. Andreas Park: https://sites.google.com/site/parkandreas/home
  14. Fahad Saleh: https://www.fahadsaleh.com/
  15. Fabian Schär: https://cif.unibas.ch/en/team/schaer/
  16. Denis Schweizer: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=744422
  17. Katrin Tinn: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/k.tinn
  18. Silvio Vismara: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Sa8sBkoAAAAJ&hl=de
  19. David Yermack: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=44459
Law
  1. Primavera De Filippi (@yaoeo): https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/pdefilippi
  2. Michèle Finck (@finck_m): http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/michele-finck.htm 
  3. Jake Goldenfein (@jakusg): https://www.swinburne.edu.au/business-law/schools-departments/swinburne-law-school/staff/profile/index.php?id=jgoldenfein
  4. Wulf Kaal (@WulfKaal): https://wulfkaal.com/
  5. Carla L. Reyes: http://www.stetson.edu/law/faculty/reyes-carla/index.php
  6. Jonathan Rohr: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2409946
  7. Houman Shadab: http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/faculty_profiles/houman_shadab/
  8. Kevin Werbach (@kwerb): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=355061 
  9. Angela Walch (@angela_walch ): ​https://law.stmarytx.edu/academics/faculty/angela-walch/ 
  10. Aaron Wright (@awrigh01): cardozo.yu.edu/directory/aaron-wright 
Mathematics
  1. Andrew Lipton: https://arxiv.org/find/q-fin/1/au:+Lipton_A/0/1/0/all/0/1
  2. Carey Caginalp: http://www.pitt.edu/~careycag/
  3. Gundez Caginalp: http://www.pitt.edu/~caginalp/
Culture/Politics/Marketing
  1. David Golumbia (@dgolumbia) : http://www.uncomputing.org/
  2. Mariam Humayun (@MariamHu):  https://mariamhumayun.com/
Technology/Innovation
  1. Susan Athey (@Susan_Athey): https://people.stanford.edu/athey/
  2. Christian Catalini (@ccatalini):  www.catalini.com/about/​
  3. Joshua Gans: https://www.joshuagans.com/research/ 
  4. Paolo Tasca (@PaoloTasca): www.paolotasca.com/