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Lead Research Scientist across AI, data science, data architecture & OnChain & TradFi Data analysis, portfolio backtesting & design.

10+ years of research and data science across finance, blockchain and AI, turning complex on-chain and market data into investment intelligence for institutional players.

Entropy Advisors · UZH prev. 21Shares · Credit Suisse · Natixis IM · Exane BNP Paribas
Mohammed Benseddik
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Lead Research Scientist
Entropy Advisors
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PhD Candidate
UZH Blockchain Center
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Onchain Analytics · Incentives Design · Portfolio & Yield Simulation
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Research Publications

Research spanning my PhD at the UZH Blockchain Center and my professional work, on incentive mechanisms, market design and consensus in decentralized systems, bridging academic rigor with real-world on-chain economies.

FEATURED · 2026 · arXiv:2606.23337

When Staking Rewards Compound: Measuring the Impact of Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade

2026 Nanyang Blockchain Conference (NBC)
Mohammed Benseddik, Benjamin Kraner, Claudio J. Tessone

Examines how Pectra's 0x02 compounding validators reshape consensus-layer rewards, simulating the APR uplift across staker types and analysing early adoption and migration barriers on the beacon chain.

Read on arXiv →
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Research that turns data into decisions.

I'm an experienced Data Science & Quantitative Research leader working where traditional and decentralized finance meet. As Lead Research Scientist at Entropy Advisors, I partner with Arbitrum DAO and Offchain Labs on consensus-mechanism research, incentives design and optimization, yield-strategy simulation, and data infrastructure architecture for a 10+ TB on-chain data lake and analytics.

Over 10+ years across data science, quantitative finance and digital assets, I've built and led Data & AI teams and shipped production platforms used daily by trading, research and portfolio-management desks, turning complex on-chain and market data into decisions teams can act on. As Director and Head of Data Science & AI at 21Shares, I owned strategy and architecture for the firm's crypto-intelligence platform; earlier, at Natixis, I built and managed teams of data scientists and engineers.

Alongside this, I'm a PhD researcher at the University of Zurich Blockchain Center, studying incentive mechanisms and market design in decentralized systems, pairing machine learning and statistical modelling with domain expertise to tackle high-impact financial problems.

Mohammed Benseddik
Mohammed Benseddik
Zurich, Switzerland
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2015 - 2018
Earlier: Data Analyst @ Worldline · SWE Intern @ NTNU (Paris · Gjøvik)
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Let's get in touch.

Open to research collaborations, advisory and conversations on consensus, market design and quantitative finance.