Sebastian Bürgel
Sebastian Bürgel is one of the world’s top smart contract and solidity developers. After starting two tech ventures, SONECT and Validity Labs, he launched HOPR to work on radically new paradigms facilitated by blockchain and other decentralized technologies. As President of HOPR, he builds applications for a wide range of industries such as insurance, real estate, finance, biomedical and others, developing a blockchain platform designed to secure data. Sebastian is also a regular speaker at major blockchain conferences, and is one of the world’s leading decentralized application architects. Prior to joining the blockchain and crypto ecosystem, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and PhD student at ETH Zurich in the domain of microtechnology and microfabrication for biomedical applications such as drug discovery, cancer research and neglected tropical diseases.
Sebastian Bürgel Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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President, Founder
Academic History
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Ph.D., Bio Engineering
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M.Sc. ETH, Biomedical Engineering
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B.Sc. ETH, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
EARLY CAREER AND EXPERTISE
Validity Labs, ETH Zurich spin-off, is the first Swiss-based education and service company focusing on blockchain and other decentralized tech.
His previous project, SONECT, a mobile cash solution, attracted the interest of one of Switzerland’s largest financial institutions, PostFinance.
Over the course of his PhD, he developed a label-free microfluidic analysis platform for single and multicellular spherical model-organs utilizing electrical impedance spectroscopy.
INTERESTS
Any privacy project that improves the limitations of VPNs, TOR or other P2P applications
Decentralized web3 apps based on blockchain and other P2P tech such as IPFS, Libp2p and other decentralized computation
On-chain privacy in the blockchain domain such as zk-SNARKs, zk-STARKs, BulletProofs, Optimistic Rollups and zk-Rollups
DAOs or other forms of digital organizations inspiring a future beyond today's corporations
Tokenized capital markets and token ecosystems that go beyond the ICO and STO hype
MEDIA
Sebastian has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.