Niklas Treutner is a member of the Liquid Democracy e.V. and works on innovative ideas and projects for democratic participation. He studied both Media Technology and Applied Media and Communication Studies at the Ilmenau University of Technology and is currently employed at the Department of Computer Science of the Humboldt University of Berlin. He worked on enquetebeteiligung.de and offenekommune.de and advocates the use of participative democracy in more aspects of our society.