Florian Spychiger

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate Blockchain & Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Institute for Organizational Viability

www.zhaw.ch/iov

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Incentive systems in Blockchains
Governance in Company Networks
Agent-based Modelling

Professional milestones

since 2020: Management Associate UZH Blockchain Center
2018-2019: Research Assistant Supply Chain und Blockchain, ZHAW SML
2015-2017: Working student Vontobel Asset Management AG, Zurich
2015: Internship SG Analytics, Pune

Educational background

2019-Now: PhD Studies, Incentives in Blockchain Systems, University of Zurich
2015-2019: MSc UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance, Joint Degree University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
2010-2014: BSc Economics, University of Berne

Membership of networks

• Researcher UZH Blockchain Center
• Topic Leader Data Innovation Alliance
• ZHAW Digital Futures Lab
• UZH Digital Society Initiative
• Core Team Member DAO Suisse
• LinkedIn

Projects

• DAO Radar Switzerland / Project leader / Project ongoing
• DAOify - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• MetaRoom / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Supernodes in the dHealth Network / Team member / Project ongoing
• RightFootForward – Innovative business model with the possibility to donate based on blockchain technology / Project co-leader / Project completed
• A Governance Framework for the Swiss Blockchain Ecosystem / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Blockchain Technology in Interorganizational Collaboration / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• no1s1 - A house owned by no one but itself / Project leader / Project completed
• Decentralized Registration and Trading Platform for Emission Certificates / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Expert Group of the Swiss Alliance for Data-intensive (NTN-Network) / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Blockchain-basierte Track&Trace Plattform / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Schädler, Lukas; Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2023.

  Analyzing decision-making in blockchain governance.

  Frontiers in Blockchain.

  23(6).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1256651

• Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio 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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3232183

• Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio J.; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Schwabe, Gerhard,

  2022.

  Incentivizing data quality in blockchain-based systems : the case of the digital cardossier.

  Distributed Ledger Technologies.

  1(1).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3538228

• Lustenberger, Michael; Malešević , Saša; Spychiger, Florian,

  2021.

  Ecosystem readiness : blockchain adoption is driven externally.

  Frontiers in Blockchain.

  4(720454).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.720454

• Spychiger, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio J.,

  2021.

  Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the “tree of blockchain”.

  Frontiers in Blockchain.

  3(613476).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2020.613476

• Malešević, Saša; Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2020.

  Applying distributed ledger concepts to a Swiss regional label ecosystem.

  Logistics.

  4(32).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics4040032

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Taylor, Michael,

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26137-5_14

• Martignoni, Jens; Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael; Lehner, Patrick,

  2023.

  Decentralizing project management by a DAO : a first attempt [paper].

  In:

  23rd EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.

• Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael,

  2022.

  Decision-making in blockchains [paper].

  In:

  22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25564

• Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio J.,

  2021.

  The miner's dilemma with migration [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings 2021 of the 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services.

  3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS), Paris, France, 27-30 September 2021.

  IEEE.

  pp. 97-104.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS52497.2021.9569793

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Malešević, Saša,

  2020.

  Towards a better understanding of the value of blockchains in supply chain management [paper].

  In:

  Information Systems : 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, Proceedings.

  16th European Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 9-10 December 2019.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 101-112.

  Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 381.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_8

• Zavolokina, Liudmila; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio; Schwabe, Gerhard,

  2018.

  Incentivizing data quality in blockchains for inter-organizational networks : learning from the digital car dossier [paper].

  In:

  ICIS 2018 Proceedings.

  39th International Conference of Information Systems 2018, San Francisco, USA, 13-16 December 2018.

  Association for Information Systems.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-157909

• Zavolokina, Liudmila; Spychiger, Florian; Schwabe, Gerhard,

  2021.

  Leitfaden Blockchain in der kantonalen Verwaltung Zürich.

  Kanton Zürich Staatskanzlei digitale Verwaltung und E-Government.

  Available from: 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, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio,

  2020.

  The tree of blockchain.

  Rochester:

  SSRN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3707260

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2019.

  Blockchain als Grundlage des Informationsaustausches.

  Fokus Swiss.

  Available from: https://fokus.swiss/2019/07/03/blockchain-als-grundlage-des-informationsaustausches/

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