Juho Lindman is an associate professor of informatics in the Department of Applied IT at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and the director of the University of Gothenburg Blockchain Lab. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä for 2022. Lindman was a SCANCOR scholar (Stanford, US) in 2012 and 2015, a scholar at SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) in 2019 and he was also a visiting research scholar at London School of Economics (United Kingdom) in 2010.

In addition to the title of docent at the University of Gothenburg, Lindman holds the title of docent of openness in systems development and use in the faculty of information technology and electrical engineering at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Previously, he worked as an assistant professor of information systems science at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Lindman defended his doctoral dissertation at the Aalto University School of Economics in Helsinki. In the field of information systems, his current research is focused on the areas of open-source software development and blockchain governance.

Lindman is an expert on blockchains and has had several appearances in the media regarding this subject. He published a report for OECD in 2020 titled The Uncertain Promise of Blockchain for Government.