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. et al. (2025) 'Governance and maintenance for DAOs with physical assets : the case of No1s1', Blockchain: Research and Applications, (100357). doi: 10.1016/j.bcra.2025.100357.
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2025) 'DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO workshop (DAWO)', Applied Sciences, 15(7), p. 3491. doi: 10.3390/app15073491.
- Lustenberger, M., Küng, L. and Spychiger, F. (2025) 'Designing community governance : learnings from DAOs', The journal of the British Blockchain Association, 8(1). doi: 10.31585/jbba-8-1-(4)2025.
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2025) 'DAOs as property owners : a conceptual exploration from the perspective of organizational system theory', Journal of Organization Design, 14(2), pp. 127–143. doi: 10.1007/s41469-025-00186-4.
- Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2025) 'Blockchain in supply chains : an unfulfilled promise', Supply Chain Management, 30(2), pp. 178–194. doi: 10.1108/SCM-03-2024-0192.
- Spychiger, F. et al. (2023) 'Organizing projects with blockchain through a decentralized autonomous organization', Project Leadership and Society, 4(100102). doi: 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100102.
- Schädler, L., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2023) 'Analyzing decision-making in blockchain governance', Frontiers in Blockchain, 23(6). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2023.1256651.
- Spychiger, F. et al. (2022) 'Incentivizing data quality in blockchain-based systems : the case of the digital cardossier', Distributed Ledger Technologies, 1(1). doi: 10.1145/3538228.
- Li, C., Spychiger, F. and 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), pp. 2760–2770. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3232183.
- Lustenberger, M., Malešević , S. and Spychiger, F. (2021) 'Ecosystem readiness : blockchain adoption is driven externally', Frontiers in Blockchain, 4(720454). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2021.720454.
- Spychiger, F., Tasca, P. and Tessone, C. J. (2021) 'Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the "tree of blockchain"', Frontiers in Blockchain, 3(613476). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2020.613476.
- Malešević, S., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2020) 'Applying distributed ledger concepts to a Swiss regional label ecosystem', Logistics, 4(32). doi: 10.3390/logistics4040032.
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M. and Küng, L. (2025) 'Decision-making in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)', in Themistocleous, M. (ed.) Handbook of blockchain technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 142–163. doi: 10.4337/9781803922805.00020.
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Taylor, M. (2019) 'Optimierung des Supply Chain Informationsaustauschs mit Blockchain-Startups', in Digitalisierung in der Praxis : so schaffen KMU den Weg in die Zukunft. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 209–221. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-26137-5_14.
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Küng, L. (eds) (2025) Decentralized autonomous organizations – governance, technology, and legal perspectives : proceedings of the 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zürich, Switzerland, 2025, 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zurich, Switzerland, 23-24 June 2025. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7.
- Spychiger, F. et al. (2025) 'Requirements and benefits of a DAO tokenomics framework', in 2025 Crypto Valley Conference (CVC). IEEE, pp. 81–85. doi: 10.1109/CVC65719.2025.00016.
- Küng, L., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2024) 'Decision-making in a more-than-human world', in Blockchain Kaigi, Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2024.
- Spychiger, F. et al. (2024) 'Governance and maintenance for a DAO with physical assets : an agent-based model', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/COINS61597.2024.10622115.
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Küng, L. (2024) 'Designing a decentralized autonomous organization', in ECIS 2024 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track16_fintech/track16_fintech/6/.
- Caviezel, M., Spychiger, F. and Stallone, V. (2024) 'Aspects for implementations of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) in Switzerland', in Rocha, A. et al. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. Cham: Springer, pp. 366–376. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45648-0_36.
- Martignoni, J. et al. (2023) 'Decentralizing project management by a DAO : a first attempt', in 23rd EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.
- Spychiger, F. and Lustenberger, M. (2022) 'Decision-making in blockchains', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-25564.
- Li, C., Spychiger, F. and Tessone, C. J. (2021) 'The miner's dilemma with migration', in Proceedings 2021 of the 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services. IEEE, pp. 97–104. doi: 10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569793.
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Malešević, S. (2020) 'Towards a better understanding of the value of blockchains in supply chain management', in Information Systems : 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, pp. 101–112. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_8.
- Zavolokina, L. et al. (2018) 'Incentivizing data quality in blockchains for inter-organizational networks : learning from the digital car dossier', in ICIS 2018 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. doi: 10.5167/uzh-157909.
Weitere Publikationen
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2024) Mastering DAOs : a practical guidebook for building and managing decentralized autonomous organizations. 2nd revised edition. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2543.
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2024) DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO Workshop (DAWO). SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4944742.
- Zavolokina, L., Spychiger, F. and Schwabe, G. (2021) Leitfaden Blockchain in der kantonalen Verwaltung Zürich. Kanton Zürich Staatskanzlei digitale Verwaltung und E-Government. Available at: 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. and Tessone, C. (2020) The tree of blockchain. Rochester: SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3707260.
- Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2019) 'Blockchain als Grundlage des Informationsaustausches', Fokus Swiss. Available at: https://fokus.swiss/2019/07/03/blockchain-als-grundlage-des-informationsaustausches/.