Prof. Dr Claudio J. Tessone

Current Roles and Affiliation

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, Head

UZH Blockchain Center, Chairman
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Andreasstrasse 15 / Office AND 4.42
8050 Zürich Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 635 92 61

E-Mail: tessone@ifi.uzh.ch

Short biography

Claudio J. Tessone is Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the Informatics Department, University of Zurich. He is co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center. He holds a PhD in Physics (on complex systems) and an Habilitation on "Complex socio-economic systems" from ETH Zurich. He is an expert in the modelling of complex socio-economic, and socio-technical systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is interested in the link between microscopic agent behaviour and the rules these agents abide to, and the global, emergent properties of socio-economic and socio-technical systems.
Blockchain-based systems and cryptocurrencies are the main pillar of his research (being among the first to study them). This includes crypoeconomics (from financial aspects to meso- and macro- properties, such as withstanding, emergent centralisation), big-data blockchain analytics and forensics, design of blockchain-based systems, and characterisation of economic incentives that are present (by design or set inadvertently) in them.
He is the director of the Summer School: Deep Dive into Blockchain and of the Certificate of Advanced Studies on Blockchain at the University of Zurich.

Previous Positions

2015-2021

Assistant Professor of Network Science

URPP Social Networks. Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics. Universität Zürich, Switzerland

2007-2014

Senior Research Associate (postdoc)

Chair of Systems Design, D-MTEC, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

Academic degrees

2015

Habilitation on "Complex socio-economic systems"

Thesis: Agent-based modelling of socio-economic systems: Social influence and network interactions

Department of Management, Technology and Economics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

2002-2006

PhD in Physics
 Thesis: Synchronisation and Collective Effects in Extended Stochastic Systems

Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats. Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

1993-1999

Master in Physics
Thesis: Stochastic Resonance. New Control Parameters and Coupled Systems

Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Schwabe, Gerhard (2022). Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchain-Based Systems – The Case of the Digital Cardossier. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, 1(1):1-27.
De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Piškorec, Matija; Partida, Alberto; Tessone, Claudio J (2022). The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets. Entropy, 24(8):1048.
Schwarz-Schilling, Caspar; Li, Sheng-Nan; Tessone, Claudio J (2021). Agent-based Modelling of Strategic behavior in PoW Protocols. In: 2021 Third International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA), Tartu, Estonia, 15 November 2021 - 17 November 2021. IEEE, 111-118.
De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Partida, Alberto; Piškorec, Matija; Tessone, Claudio J (2021). Heterogeneous Preferential Attachment in Key Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets. Frontiers in Physics, 9:720708.
Li, Chuanyun; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio (2021). The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration. In: 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, Paris, 27 September 2021 - 30 September 2021, IEEE.
Fischer, Jan Alexander; Palechor, Andres; Dell’Aglio, Daniele; Bernstein, Abraham; Tessone, Claudio J (2021). The Complex Community Structure of the Bitcoin Address Correspondence Network. Frontiers in Physics, 9:681798.
Mariani, Manuel; Pallazi, Maria J; Solé-Ribalta, Albert; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Tessone, Claudio (2021). Absence of a resolution limit in in-block nestedness. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 94:105545.
Spychiger, Florian; Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio (2021). Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the “Tree of Blockchain”. Frontiers in Blockchain, 3:613476.
Vallarano, Nicoló; Tessone, Claudio J; Squartini, Tiziano (2020). Bitcoin Transaction Networks: An Overview of Recent Results. Frontiers in Physics, 8:286.
Bruno, Matteo; Saracco, Fabio; Tessone, Claudio J; Garlaschelli, Diego; Caldarelli, Guido (2020). The ambiguity of nestedness under soft and hard constraints. Scientific Reports, 10:19903.
Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J (2020). Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency mining: a statistical approach to fairness. In: 2020 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), Chongqing, China, 9 August 2020 - 11 August 2020. IEEE/CIC, 156-161.
Lin, Jian-Hong; Primicerio, Kevin; Squartini, Tiziano; Decker, Christian; Tessone, Claudio J (2020). Lightning network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy. New Journal of Physics, 22(8):083022.
Li, Sheng-Nan; Yang, Zhao; Tessone, Claudio J (2020). Mining blocks in a row: a statistical study of fairness in Bitcoin mining. In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Toronto, 2 May 2020 - 6 May 2020, IEEE.
Palazzi, Maria J; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Tessone, Claudio J; Solé-Ribalta, Albert (2019). Macro- and mesoscale pattern interdependencies in complex networks. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16:20190553.
Kindschi, Martin; Cieciuch, Jan; Davidov, Eldad; Ehlert, Alexander; Rauhut, Heiko; Tessone, Claudio J; Algesheimer, René (2019). Values in adolescent friendship networks. Network Science, 7(4):498-522.
Bovet, Alexandre; Campajola, Carlo; Mottes, Francesco; Restocchi, Valerio; Vallarano, Nicolò; Squartini, Tiziano; Tessone, Claudio (2019). The evolving liaisons between the transaction networks of Bitcoin and its price dynamics. arXiv.org 1907.03577, University of Zurich.
Mariani, Manuel; Ren, Zhuo-Ming; Bascompte, Jordi; Tessone, Claudio (2019). Nestedness in complex networks: Observation, emergence, and implications. Physics Reports, 813:1-90.
Fuentes, Miguel A; Tessone, Claudio J; Furtado, Bernardo A (2019). Editorial : Public policy modeling and applications. Complexity, 2019:4128703.
Tasca, Paolo; Tessone, Claudio (2019). A Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies: Principles of Identification and Classification. Ledger (Pittsburgh), 4:1-39.
Furtado, Bernardo A; Fuentes, Miguel A; Tessone, Claudio J (2019). Policy modeling and applications: State-of-the-Art and perspectives. Complexity, 2019:5041681.

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