Attila Szantner

Attila as CEO and co-founder of the Swiss start-up, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (aka MMOS) set up several citizen science collaborations with major AAA game developers, like Borderlands Science (https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2020-04-07-borderlands-science/) or EVE Online's Project Discovery (https://www.eveonline.com/discovery). These research mini-games engaged over 5.5 million players, contributed with over 700 million scientific puzzles solved, were praised by a worldwide media coverage from the New Yorker to the frontpage of Nature Biotechnology, featured in several documentaries, and received awards, like the prestigious Lovie Award, the Innovation Award of the University of Geneva or the IGDA Community Leadership Award. Attila is also an adjunct professor at McGill University School of Computer Science.