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Biography

Rafael Ziolkowski is a doctoral student and research assistant at the Information Management research group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, since February 2017. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information Systems from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interests are at the intersection of technology and modes of organizing, interorganizational system governance, the applicability of distributed ledger technologies, and distributed ledger technologies in general. Within the Innosuisse project cardossier, Rafael led governance-related works, which led to the foundation of the cardossier association and allowed cardossier to grow. In his project work, Rafael also worked as a business analyst for governance-related and use-case-oriented topics.

Research interests:
Governance of / by blockchain systems, Definition of Blockchain Use Cases, Modes of Blockchain Governance and The Theory of the Firm