Dr. Samuel Fricker was a researcher assistant from 2007 to 2009 and a senior researcher from 2009 to 2011, at the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich. He  worked on the Handshaking project. He received his doctorate in 2009.

After having been an assistant professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, he is now a professor at FHNW in Switzerland.