Dr. Florian Spychiger
Dr. Florian Spychiger
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Institute for Organizational Viability
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Tätigkeit
Senior Researcher & Dozent Dezentrale Autonome Organisationen & Blockchain
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Dezentralisierte Autonome Organisationen
- Anreizsysteme in Blockchains
- Blockchain Governance
- Agentbasierte Modelle
Lehrtätigkeit
- BSc Wahlpflichtmodul "Business Value of Blockchain"
- WBK Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) & Metaverse
Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung
Berufserfahrung
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Dezentrale Autonome Organisationen & Blockchain
ZHAW
02 / 2019 - 02 / 2025 - Management Associate
UZH Blockchain Center
08 / 2020 - 08 / 2023 - Wissenschaftlicher Assistent SCM & Blockchain
ZHAW
02 / 2018 - 01 / 2019 - Werkstudent Prozessautomatisierung
Vontobel
09 / 2015 - 07 / 2017 - Praktikum Investment Research
SG Analytics, Pune, India
01 / 2015 - 07 / 2015
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Ausbildung
- Doktor der Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Universität Zürich
02 / 2019 - 09 / 2023 - MSc UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance / Finanzwissenschaft
ETH Zürich / Universität Zürich
09 / 2015 - 04 / 2019 - BSc Volkswirtschaft / Volkswirtschaft
Universität Bern
09 / 2010 - 09 / 2014
Weiterbildung
- CAS in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW School of Management and Law
08 / 2023 - Funding for Science and Innovation Projects and Fellowships
Universität Zürich
05 / 2020 - Project design and grant proposal writing
Universität Zürich
03 / 2020 - Design thinking
Universität Zürich
10 / 2019 - Project Management for Researchers
ZHAW School of Management and Law
07 / 2019 - Cambridge Proficiency C2
Universität Cambridge
11 / 2011
Netzwerk
Mitglied in Netzwerken
- DAO Suisse
- DIZH Fellows
- UZH Blockchain Center
- ZHAW Digital Futures Lab
- UZH Digital Society Initiative
- Data Innovation Alliance
ORCID digital identifier
Social Media
Medienpräsenz
- SRF Podcast: Das Haus, das sich selbst verwaltet
- Fokus Swiss: Blockchain als Grundlage des Informationsaustausches
Projekte
- Agentic AI for DAOs / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Exploring Decentralized Governance for NPOs / Co-Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy / Co-Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Data Center at Home / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Kollaborative Netzwerke: Die Evolution der Projektarbeit in einer digitalen Welt mit DAOs / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Inno Booster Blockchain Breezing / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Selbstorganisation als Treiber der E-Partizipation: DAOs und deren Potenzial zur gesellschaftlichen Beteiligung / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Tokenomics Framework für die Governance dezentralisierter autonomer Organisationen / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Inno Booster Blockchain FTWinnerdApp / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Inno Booster Blockchain DMRV Biogas / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- DAO Radar Schweiz / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- MetaRoom / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- RightFootForward – Innovatives Geschäftsmodell mit Möglichkeit zur Spende auf Basis der Blockchain-Technologie / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- no1s1 – A house owned by no one but itself / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Blockchain Technology in Interorganizational Collaboration / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- A Governance Framework for the Swiss Blockchain Ecosystem / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Supernodes im dHealth Network / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Dezentrale Registrierungs- und Handelsplattform für Emissionszertifikate / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Blockchain-basierte Track&Trace Plattform / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Blum, M., Crimi, N., Emmenegger, P., Spychiger, F., & Tessone, C. J. (2025). Governance and maintenance for DAOs with physical assets : the case of No1s1. Blockchain: Research and Applications, 100357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2025.100357
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., Bassi, E., & Wollenschläger, S. (2025). DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO workshop (DAWO). Applied Sciences, 15(7), 3491. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15073491
- Lustenberger, M., Küng, L., & Spychiger, F. (2025). Designing community governance : learnings from DAOs. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-8-1-(4)2025
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., & Martignoni, J. (2025). DAOs as property owners : a conceptual exploration from the perspective of organizational system theory. Journal of Organization Design, 14(2), 127–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41469-025-00186-4
- Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2025). Blockchain in supply chains : an unfulfilled promise. Supply Chain Management, 30(2), 178–194. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-03-2024-0192
- Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M., Martignoni, J., Schädler, L., & Lehner, P. (2023). Organizing projects with blockchain through a decentralized autonomous organization. Project Leadership and Society, 4(100102). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2023.100102
- Schädler, L., Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2023). Analyzing decision-making in blockchain governance. Frontiers in Blockchain, 23(6). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1256651
- Spychiger, F., Tessone, C. J., Zavolokina, L., & Schwabe, G. (2022). Incentivizing data quality in blockchain-based systems : the case of the digital cardossier. Distributed Ledger Technologies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3538228
- Li, C., Spychiger, F., & Tessone, C. J. (2022). The miner’s dilemma with migration : the control effect of solo-mining. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(3), 2760–2770. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3232183
- Lustenberger, M., Malešević , S., & Spychiger, F. (2021). Ecosystem readiness : blockchain adoption is driven externally. Frontiers in Blockchain, 4(720454). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.720454
- Spychiger, F., Tasca, P., & Tessone, C. J. (2021). Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the “tree of blockchain”. Frontiers in Blockchain, 3(613476). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2020.613476
- Malešević, S., Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2020). Applying distributed ledger concepts to a Swiss regional label ecosystem. Logistics, 4(32). https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics4040032
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M., & Küng, L. (2025). Decision-making in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). In M. Themistocleous (Ed.), Handbook of blockchain technology (pp. 142–163). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922805.00020
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., & Taylor, M. (2019). Optimierung des Supply Chain Informationsaustauschs mit Blockchain-Startups. In Digitalisierung in der Praxis : so schaffen KMU den Weg in die Zukunft (pp. 209–221). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26137-5_14
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Decentralized autonomous organizations – governance, technology, and legal perspectives : proceedings of the 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zürich, Switzerland, 2025. (2025). In M. Lustenberger, F. Spychiger, & L. Küng (Eds.), 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zurich, Switzerland, 23-24 June 2025. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7
- Spychiger, F., Wollenschläger, S., Hafner, M., & Oderbolz, N. (2025). Requirements and benefits of a DAO tokenomics framework [Conference paper]. 2025 Crypto Valley Conference (CVC), 81–85. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVC65719.2025.00016
- Küng, L., Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2024, September 13). Decision-making in a more-than-human world. Blockchain Kaigi, Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2024.
- Spychiger, F., Makode, P. K., Küng, L., & Tessone, C. J. (2024, August 15). Governance and maintenance for a DAO with physical assets : an agent-based model. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). https://doi.org/10.1109/COINS61597.2024.10622115
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., & Küng, L. (2024, April 30). Designing a decentralized autonomous organization. ECIS 2024 Proceedings. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track16_fintech/track16_fintech/6/
- Caviezel, M., Spychiger, F., & Stallone, V. (2024). Aspects for implementations of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) in Switzerland [Conference paper]. In A. Rocha, H. Adeli, G. Dzemyda, F. Moreira, & V. Colla (Eds.), Information Systems and Technologies (pp. 366–376). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45648-0_36
- Martignoni, J., Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M., & Lehner, P. (2023). Decentralizing project management by a DAO : a first attempt. 23rd EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.
- Spychiger, F., & Lustenberger, M. (2022). Decision-making in blockchains. 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25564
- Li, C., Spychiger, F., & Tessone, C. J. (2021). The miner’s dilemma with migration [Conference paper]. Proceedings 2021 of the 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569793
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., & Malešević, S. (2020). Towards a better understanding of the value of blockchains in supply chain management [Conference paper]. Information Systems : 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, Proceedings, 101–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_8
- Zavolokina, L., Spychiger, F., Tessone, C., & Schwabe, G. (2018). Incentivizing data quality in blockchains for inter-organizational networks : learning from the digital car dossier. ICIS 2018 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-157909
Weitere Publikationen
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., & Cuadra, P. (2024). Mastering DAOs : a practical guidebook for building and managing decentralized autonomous organizations (2nd revised edition). ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2543
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., Bassi, E., & Wollenschläger, S. (2024). DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO Workshop (DAWO). SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4944742
- Zavolokina, L., Spychiger, F., & Schwabe, G. (2021). Leitfaden Blockchain in der kantonalen Verwaltung Zürich. Kanton Zürich Staatskanzlei digitale Verwaltung und E-Government. https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/politik-staat/kanton/digitale-verwaltung-und-e-government/projekte_digitale_transformation/blockchain_leitfaden_final.pdf
- Spychiger, F., Tasca, P., & Tessone, C. (2020). The tree of blockchain. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3707260
- Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2019). Blockchain als Grundlage des Informationsaustausches. Fokus Swiss. https://fokus.swiss/2019/07/03/blockchain-als-grundlage-des-informationsaustausches/