Dr. Merav Ozair is a global leading expert on blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a background of a data scientist and a quant strategist. She has in-depth knowledge and experience in global financial markets and its market microstructure. Currently, Dr. Ozair applies her unique expertise to researching the blockchain ecosystem and experimenting with distributed ledger technology (DLT) – specifically, decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) applications across different industries and business use cases. Dr. Ozair is a FinTech Professor at Rutgers Business School (RBS). At RBS she has developed and teaches courses on blockchain and digital assets for both undergrads and graduate level. She serves as an advisor and researcher at the Rutgers Blockchain and FinTech Collaboratory; and is an affiliated professor at Rutgers Law School, focusing on DeFi.