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UZH Blockchain Center

UZH Blockchain Center
University of Zurich (UZH)
Andreasstrasse 15
8050 Zurich

  • Prof. Dr. Claudio J. Tessone - Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe - Financial Infrastructure & Blockchain Governance
  • Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller - Computer Science & Communication Systems
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Ewerhart - Cryptoassets, AML Regulation, CBDC and Smart Contracts
  • Prof. Dr. iur. Rolf H. Weber - Financial Market Regulation
  • Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens - Financial Economics
  • Prof. Dr. Christine Kaufmann - International Trade and Financial Systems
  • Prof. Dr. Francis Cheneval - Theory of Democracy, Property Rights, Justice & History of Political Thought
  • Dr. Taehoon Kim - Graph Representation Learning, AI-enhanced Blockchain Systems, Connectivity Inference & Semantic Technologies in Blockchain
  • Dr. Sheng-nan Li - Analysis of blockchain-based systems, User Behavior Analysis, Network Science & Strategic Mining
  • Dr. Sina Rafati Niya - Blockchain Analytics, Blockchain Data Engineering, Blockchain systems & applications
  • Dr. Thomas Puschmann - Cryptocurrencies, Business Impact of Blockchain, Blockchain and Token Economics & Blockchain Applications for Sustainability
  • Prof. Dr. Florent Thouvenin - Transfer of Rights, Privacy & IP-Registers
  • Prof. Dr. Sven Seuken - Cryptoeconomics, Design of Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanisms, Design of Blockchain-based Market Platforms, Design & Analysis of Blockchain-based Business Models
  • Prof. Dr. Uwe SerdĂĽlt - E-Governance, Token Design, Election Campaign Financing, Digital Democracy & Internet Voting
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger  - Family Violence, Public Perception of Crime Control, Computer Crime and Cybercrime & Victim Surveys
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht - Antitrust Control, Blockchain and Corporation Law, Data Driven Business Models, Blockchain-Based IP Register, IP Transactions & Competition in Blockchain-based Markets
  • Prof. Dr. David Oesch - Triple-Entry-Accounting, Accounting for Cryptocurrencies, Corporate Voting & Blockchain
  • Prof. Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty - Emissions Trading, Supply Chain Monitoring, Closing Material Cycles & Energy Footprint of Blockchains
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Zeisberger - Behavioral Finance, FinTech & Cryptocurrency
  • Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas - Blockchain Analytics, Blockchain Applications in Finance, Financial Modelling & Quantitative Risk Management
  • Prof. Dr. Helmut M. Dietl - Disintermediation, Blockchain Scalability, Cooperative Organization, Trusted Third Party, Proof of Stake, Service Platform & Smart Contract
  • Prof. Dr. Marco Dell’Erba - Corporate, Law & Technology, Finance & Banking
  • Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein - AI, E-ID, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, Smart Negotiation/Contracting/Monitoring/Regulation and Fraud Detection, Technology-Driven Business Models
  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Rosenthal - Coding Theory and Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptographic Systems
  • Dr. Nicolas Galley - Art Market, Arts & Blockchain, NFTs
  • Dr. Nicolò Vallarano - Decentralised Finance, Complex Systems, Network Science, Data Science, Networks Epidemics, Statistical Mechanics of Networks & Consensus Protocols
  • Dr. Matija Piškorec - Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Statistical Inference, Information Visualization, Social Influence in Online Social Networks & Blockchain Technologies
  • Prof. Dr. Yoan HermstrĂĽwer - Law and Technology, Law and Economics
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner - Corporate Governance, Smart Contracts and Executive Compensation, Corporate Voting, Corporate Communication and Reporting, Honesty and Deception
  • Prof. Dr. Alexandre Bovet - Continuous Time Random Walks and Markov Chains, Information and Opinion Diffusion, Disinformation and Polarization, Clustering Algorithms for Dynamical Data, Complex Systems, Social Networks, Data Science, Dynamic Community Detection
www.blockchain.uzh.ch

The UZH Blockchain Center at the University of Zurich (UZH) is an interdisciplinary hub (Informatics, Business, Economics, Finance, Regulation, Law, Mathematics and Complexity Science) dedicated to researching blockchain technology and its wide-ranging applications. It fosters collaboration among various academic fields, examining the technology's impact on economics, law, and society. The center aims to be a leading source of knowledge and innovation in the blockchain space, both within Switzerland and internationally.

(data as of May 2025)