Tara Merk

Tara Merk is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CNRS, Paris, an ICDE Research Fellow at The New School in New York and Associate Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on blockchain governance, DAOs and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centres. In her PhD thesis, she explored a process called “Exit to Community”, which involves transitioning organisations and technologies in the digital platform economy into community ownership and governance.