Nir Chemaya started his PhD in Economics in 2020.
Chemaya focuses on innovations in the Fintech markets, such as blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), and agents' interactions with those technologies. He has authored several papers on Decentralized Exchanges and possesses extensive knowledge of blockchain technologies and payment systems. Chemaya is also currently one of the leaders of the UCSB-ECON DeFi Seminar, a graduate-student-led seminar series sponsored by Uniswap.