Bernhard Haslhofer is a Senior Scientist at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, where he leads the CryptoFinance research group. He also teaches as an external lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna.

His general research focuses on finding and applying quantitative data science methods for gaining new insights from large-scale, connected datasets.

Before, Bernhard was a Senior Scientist at the AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, where he acted as Thematic Coordinator in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence research group. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Vienna in Computer Science and has a master’s degree in Economics and Computer Science. Bernhard also worked as an EU Marie Curie fellow at Cornell Information Science and as an assistant professor at the University of Vienna. He usually works in multidisciplinary settings, has published more than 60 scientific articles in journals and conferences, and co-organized several workshops, symposia, and conferences. Moreover, Bernhard actively contributed to international standardization efforts with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the W3C World Wide Web Consortium. He coordinated several basic and applied research projects on the national and international levels.