# Samer Hassan Faculty Associate in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University ![SAMER](/sites/g/files/omnuum986/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/rcc/files/samer_01.png?itok=DJqbYwFO) email [Samer Hassan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Hassan) [(](http://cyber.harvard.edu/)PhD) is an activist and researcher, Faculty Associate at the [Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University)](http://cyber.harvard.edu/) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Focused on decentralized collaboration, he was awarded a 1.5M€ ERC grant for the [P2P Models project](http://p2pmodels.eu/), to build blockchain-based democratic and economically sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy. Coming from a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Social Sciences, he has 50+ publications in those fields (H-index=20). He has carried out research in decentralized technology, P2P communities, distributed systems, social simulation and artificial intelligence, from positions in the University of Surrey (UK), the American University of Science & Technology (Lebanon), his alma mater Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and Harvard University, in which he is affiliated since 2015. In the EU-funded [P2Pvalue project](http://p2pvalue.eu/), he coordinated building decentralized free/open source web-tools for collaborative communities, such as [SwellRT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwellRT). As an activist, he's an accredited grassroots facilitator and has experience in multiple communities and grassroots initiatives, both offline (e.g. CSA Tabacalera, Medialab-Prado, OLPC) and online (e.g. Barrapunto, Ourproject.org, Wikipedia). He is also passionate about teaching, where he applies a participatory approach inspired by assembly facilitation. Nowadays he is especially keen on UCM's course on [cyber-ethics and law](https://github.com/s-a-m/UCM-Fdi-ELP) that he co-created. With Spanish and Lebanese origins, Samer does not believe in monolithic standpoints but in combining different approaches in order to push forward social change... meaning cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary, mixing activism and academia, or theory and practice. His research interests include the Collaborative Economy, Commons-based peer production, decentralized architectures, blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, online communities, grassroots social movements & cyberethics. Follow Samer on Twitter: [@samerP2P](http://twitter.com/samerP2P) - ## People Taxonomy [Fellows and Associates](/people-taxonomy/fellows-and-associates) - ## Stakeholders [Harvard](/stakeholders/harvard) [UCM](/stakeholders/ucm)