Expanding Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Technology!
Hello, world.
The Exponential Science Foundation (ESF) is a non-profit organisation operating globally in 12 countries, supported by leading technology companies like Hedera and Ripple. Empowered by a multi-million dollar endowment, ESF is a blockchain-agnostic and AI-focused organisation that intercepts the convergence of emerging technologies. ESF follows a model of open collaboration and co-creation between academia, industry, and government.
We walk humanity towards a world where emerging digital technologies enhance trust and transparency, improve decision-making and automation, and create immersive experiences, ensuring that information and value are accessible and verifiable by all; Where open collaboration between academics, government, and startups breeds innovation, and the value created flows more horizontally across participants in the network.
Mission
We help advance a wide and safe adoption of emerging digital technologies by empowering industries, regulators and innovators to fulfil their potential through science.
Vision
To build an equitable and open future through exponential technologies.
About the Foundation
The Exponential Science Foundation was founded and is led by Dr. Paolo Tasca and Nikhil Vadgama, and is also composed of leading industry and academic experts from across the globe.
The foundation was born out of the founders’ desire to accelerate adoption of exponential science across industries and academia, and to tackle some of the key issues facing a more rapid growth as identified by their work.
The Exponential science foundation is a global, distributed organisation. It’s in our DNA - much like the technology we promote.
Dr. Tasca is a Professor at University College London digital economist specialising in distributed systems and is founder of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, one of the oldest and largest academic research centres in the blockchain field. He has served as a special advisor on blockchain technologies for numerous government and industry stakeholders in the world including the EU Parliament, the United Nations, and various central banks worldwide.
Nikhil Vadgama is Programme Director of Financial Technology at the University College London, Department of Computer Science. He is also the Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. He has worked with global stakeholders from government, industry and central banks. His commercial experience spans numerous roles in the fintech, real estate and education sectors. Most recently he was Chief Data Officer of a new challenger bank called Twig.
Come Join Us!
We’re starting our operations by putting in place a structure that will ensure evergreen funding and sustainable growth.
We’re looking to build our ranks and fill multiple roles in various departments.
Want to help us build this future? Check out our careers page and find your next role now.
