Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl Härdle is the director of the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz chair of statistics at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. He is the theoretical core driver behind the project and gives scientific advice.
David Lee founded Ferrell Asset Management in 1999 and is the Director of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics. He is the Practice Professor of Quantitative Finance in Singapore Management University and graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a PhD. He gives scientific advice and supports the project together with his institute.
Hermann Elendner is a professor at the School of Business & Economics in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He studies the cross section of cryptocurrencies and the gains from using CRIX as an investment vehicle.
Przemysław has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Przemysław is a member of the investment committees of the funds managed by Royalton Partners and member of the boards of portfolio companies engaged in infrastructure, real estate, retail and IT. Przemysław started his career as a civil engineer and holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Poznań and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Alisa Kolesnikova is a researcher at Humboldt University focusing on machine learning and statistics with a Master degree in Management from St. Andrews University. She is a creator of the VCRIX volatility index and is now applying her finance experience in integration of scientific research into financial practices.
Ernie Teo obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New South Wales in 2008. He is a research fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management University. He joined the institute after his extensive teaching experience as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. He gives scientific advice to the CRIX project.
TM is is the chief tech guy of CoinGecko. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology from Purdue University. TM is a product engineer who loves building stuff from the ground up.
Bobby is the chief economist of CoinGecko. He graduated with a degree in Economics from University College London in 2012. Bobby also curates AltcoinWeekly, a weekly cryptocurrency newsletter.
Shi Chen is a research assistant at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Management Science from Humboldt-University, and B.Sc. degrees in Engineering and Economics from Xiamen University. Shi gives an econometric analysis of the CRIX family for portfolio investment.
He holds a M.Sc. in Statistics from Humboldt University Berlin, where he is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student and a member of the IRTG 1792. His research is focussed on pricing kernels and reproducibility. For the previous five years, he was employed as a Data Scientist for the wealth manager growney.