Prof. Dr. Liudmila Zavolokina
Associated Researcher

Digital Society Initiative
University of Zurich
Rämistrasse 69
CH-8001 Zürich
Email: zavolokina AT ifi.uzh.ch
Personal website:www.zavolokina.com
Connect: LinkedIn
Short CV
- since 2024: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the Department of Information Systems, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- since 2024: Research associate at the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Switzerland (part-time, 20%)
- 2021 - 2024: DIZH Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2020 - 2021: Business-IT Consultant at Ergon Informatik AG, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2020 - 2021: Postdoctoral researcher at the Information Management Research Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland (part-time, 20%)
- 2015 - 2019: Doctoral researcher at the Information Management Research Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2013 - 2015: Business analyst at CRIF LLC, Russia, Moscow
- 2011 - 2013: Master of Science - Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia, Moscow
- 2006 - 2011: Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia, Moscow
Research Interests
- Digital resilience
- Digital platforms and ecosystems
- Data-driven intelligence
- Blockchain and its applications
Research Projects
Open Theses and Master Projects
Check available topics at our page: Theses
Supervised theses
Last updated: 06.2021, for more recent theses, check this webpage: Publications
Bachelor
- Fabian Leisibach, Daten und Datenaustausch innerhalb des Blockchain-basierten Cardossiers
- Sukirthan Sundaralingam, Understanding the Market: How the Internet and Blockchain Changes the Market for “Lemons”
- Noah Zani, Blockchain Car Dossier: Wie kann man die Blockchain Technologie für Endnutzer vertrauenswürdig machen?
- Oliver Brennwald, Operative Geschäftsprozesse innerhalb des Blockchain-basierten Cardossiers
- Nitharsan Yoganathan, What are the characteristics of a trustworthy blockchain project?
- Joachim Baumann, Potenziale des Blockchain-basierten Car Dossiers für Gebrauchtwagenhändler in der Schweiz
- Raphael Koch, Potenzial einer Blockchain-basierten Lösung zur Bekämpfung von Uhrenfälschungen in der Schweizer Uhrenindustrie
Master
- Li Man Wai, Blockchain Technology in International Trade and Finance - State of the Art
- Geetha Parangi, Blockchain Governance types in different application domains
- Luis André Pinheiro Oliveira, Car Coins: The Case for Implementing Tokens in the Blockchain-based Car Dossier Application
- Florian Spychiger, Consistent and Self-Sustaining Incentives in a Blockchain-Based Solution to the Lemons Problem
- Manuel Schlegel, Unsqueezing the Bitter Lemon: Reducing Information Asymmetries and Enhancing Trust through Reputation Mechanisms and Blockchain Technology: Case of the Used Car Market in Switzerland
- Silvan Imhof, Blockchain Car Dossier: What is there for State Organizations?
- Christine Graff, Image Data on the Car Dossier: An Explorative Study
- Marjan Shabani, Strategic Agility - How to adopt strategic agility?
Teaching
Involvements
- Reviewed for major IS conferences (AMCIS, ECIS, ICIS, HICSS, WI) and journals (JIT, JMIS, JAIS, ISJ, Electronic Markets, BISE, IEEE TEM, ISeBM)
- 2024 - Minitrack co-chair "Minitrack on Design, Implementation, and Management of Digital Government Policies and Strategies" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
- 2024 - present - Member of the editorial board, BISE Journal
- 2023 - present - Member of the editorial board, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
- 2022 - Associate editor, Track “Financial Technologies (FinTech) und Blockchain”, International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik
- 2021 - Associate editor, Track “Blockchain, DLT, and Fintech” at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
- 2018 - 2023 - Minitrack co-chair "Blockchain technology" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
- 2017 - 2023 - Associate editor, Tracks "Financial Technology (FinTech) and the Digitization of Financial Service", "The Token Economy – Blockchain Applications beyond FinTech", “Blockchain and Fintech track” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Publications
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Publications
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2018
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Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Networks – Learning from the Digital Car Dossier. In: International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS 2018), San Francisco, USA, 12 December 2018 - 16 December 2018, ICIS.
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To Token or not to Token: Tools for Understanding Blockchain Tokens. In: International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS 2018), San Francisco, USA, 12 December 2018 - 16 December 2018, ICIS.
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Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication. In: 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 3 January 2018 - 6 January 2018, HICSS.
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Blockchain Technologies from the Consumers’ Perspective: What Is There and Why Should Who Care?. In: 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018), Hawaii, 4 January 2018 - 6 January 2018, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
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2016
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FinTech – What's in a Name?. In: Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 11 December 2016 - 14 December 2016, s.n..
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The FinTech phenomenon: antecedents of financial innovation perceived by the popular press. Financial Innovation:2:16.
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FinTech transformation: how it-enabled innovations shape the financial sector. In: Feuerriegel, Stefan; Neumann, Dirk. Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry. Germany: Springer, 75-88.
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