Alex Norta is currently a scientist entrepreneur focusing on his blockchain startup. He was an associate professor in the Department of Software Science of TalTech until March 1, 2022, and earlier a researcher at the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) after being a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. 

He received his MSc degree (2001) from Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, and his PhD (2007) from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Alex is also a scientist at Tallinn University working on an Estonian Web3 research project for the creative media domain. He is also a member of the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.