Jens Wiechers
Jens Wiechers is
President at
Kryptos,
Executive Director and Editor pro tem at
Blockchain — An Interdisciplinary Research Journal,
Member of Regional Directorate: Germany and Advisor to the Board at
College Cryptocurrency Network,
Member of the Board at the
Dogecoin Foundation, Cofounder at Retrobrain, Partner at
Riskful Thinking Ventures,
Advisory Board Member at
Very Charity,
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at
Mensa Germany,
Team Member at
Irrepressible Voices,
Psychometrician at the
Triple Nine Society,
Member of the Board of Trustees at
MinD-Stiftung gGmbH, and
Member of the Global Shapers Community — Hamburg Hub at the
Global Shapers Community.
Jens is also
Member of the Executive Committee at the
Triple Nine Society,
Advisory IT Specialist at the
Prometheus Society, and
Media Outreach at the
SENS Research Foundation.
Jens is a data scientist at heart with a research interest in the
behavioral and psychological basis for social, economic, and political
behavior with a strong focus on quantitative analysis, (bayesian)
statistics and psychometrics.
He was an early supporter of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and has
been involved in the running of several mining pools and other ventures.
Lately, he’s in love with dogecoin and its community.
A programmer for most of his life, he started with C and C++ as a child,
but nowadays get things done in C# and R. He is an ardent supporter of
Ruby and has been since long before it went on RAILS. He’s also, while
not a fan of the language, tamed a Python or two. He’s used SPSS,
Mathematica, and MATLAB extensively, but prefers R.
Jens prefers working in the background and has advised researchers and
organizations on scientific results and the interpretation of data, data
analysis methods, and experimental design best practices. He’s written
research reports and developed and implemented experimental designs as
well as data analysis solutions for small and big data analysis in
academic and business contexts.
He’s managed and advised people and companies on the technical and
social aspects of online communities and founded and (co-) administered
websites and communities in the video game industry, modding and hobby
game development scene, as well as the music industry and the nonprofit
sector with several sites having millions of monthly visitors and tens
of thousands of concurrent users at some point. He’s also managed
internet radio stations, IRC networks, and various other services over
the years.
Jens divides most of his time between Hamburg and Cologne with regular
visits to Friedrichshafen, Munich, and Berlin.
Jens earned his
Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Cultural
Management, Political Management and Governance at
Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen in 2014.
He also studied
Computer Science, Philosophy, and Physics at the
University of Cologne and Politology (Democracy Theory) at the
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
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