Prof. Dr Claudio J. Tessone

Current Roles and Affiliation

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, Head

Incharge of NetSci Society

UZH Blockchain Center, Chairman
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Andreasstrasse 15 / Office AND 4.32
8050 Zürich Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 634 92 61

E-Mail: tessone[at]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 the co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center. He is also incharge of NetSci Society. 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

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Publications

Han, Beibei; Wei, Yingmei; Wang, Qingyong; De Collibus, Francesco Maria; Tessone, Claudio J (2024). MT²AD: multi-layer temporal transaction anomaly detection in ethereum networks with GNN. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 10(1):613-626.
Kraner, Benjamin; Vallarano, Nicolo; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Tokenization of the Common: An Economic Model of Multidimensional Incentives. In: Middleware '23: 24th International Middleware Conference, Bologna, Italy, 11 December 2023 - 15 December 2023. ACM Digital library, 37-42.
Öz, Burak; Kraner, Benjamin; Vallarano, Nicolo; Kruger, Bingle Stegmann; Matthes, Florian; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). Time Moves Faster When There is Nothing You Anticipate: The Role of Time in MEV Rewards. In: CCS '23: ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 November 2023. ACM Digital library, 1-8.
Kraner, Benjamin; Vallarano, Nicolo; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Topology and the Tangle: How the Underlying Network Topology Influences the Confirmation of Blocks in IOTA. In: BLOCKCHAIN 2023: 4th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications, Italy, 13 Juli 2022 - 15 Juli 2022. Springer (Bücher), 449-458.
Alberto Javarone, Marco; Di Antonio, Gabriele; Valerio Vinci, Gianni; Cristodaro, Raffaele; Tessone, Claudio; Pietronero, Luciano (2023). Disorder unleashes panic in bitcoin dynamics. Journal of Physics: Complexity, 4:045002.
Bovet, Alexandre; Campajola, Carlo; Mottes, Francesco; Restocchi, Valerio; Vallarano, Nicolo; Squartini, Tiziano; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). The Evolving Liaisons between the Transaction Networks of Bitcoin and Its Price Dynamics. In: Proceedings of Blockchain Kaigi 2022 (BCK22), Sendai, Japan, 4 August 2022 - 5 August 2022, Physical Society of Japan.
Li, Chuanyan; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). The Miner’s Dilemma With Migration: The Control Effect of Solo-Mining. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(3):2760-2770.
Kamuhanda, Dany; Cui, Mengtian; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). Illegal Community Detection in Bitcoin Transaction Networks. Entropy, 25(7):1069.
Piskorec, Matija; James Murphy, Ben Domenic; Rüegsegger, Florian; Niya, Sina Rafati; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). Bow-tie structure of the Polkadot transfer network. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1 May 2023 - 5 May 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 10174939.
Cui, Mengtian; Li, Kai; Li, Yulan; Kamuhanda, Dany; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Based on Dual Cross-Entropy Consistency. Entropy, 25(4):681.
Zhang, Zheng; Wan, Jun; Zhou, Mingyang; Lai, Zhihui; Tessone, Claudio J; Chen, Guoliang; Liao, Hao (2023). Temporal burstiness and collaborative camouflage aware fraud detection. Information Processing & Management, 60(2):103170.
Lin, Jianhong; Chen, Bo-Lun; Yang, Zhao; Liu, Jian-Guo; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). Rank the spreading influence of nodes using dynamic Markov process. New Journal of Physics, 25(2):023014.
He, Peilin; Yan, Tao; Huang, Chuanshan; Vallarano, Nicolo; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Welcome to the Tangle: An Empirical Analysis of IOTA Ledger in the Chrysalis Stage. In: Kacprzyk, Janusz. Blockchain and Applications, 5th International Congress. Cham: Springer, 419-431.
Niya, Sina Rafati; Mesić, Ivana; Anagnostou, Georgios; Brunini, Gabriele; Tessone, Claudio J (2023). A First Analytics Approach to Cardano. In: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1 May 2023 - 5 May 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 10174896.
Li, Sheng-Nan; Spychiger, Florian; Tessone, Claudio (2023). Reward Distribution in Proof-of-Stake Protocols: A Trade-Off Between Inclusion and Fairness. IEEE Access, 11:134136-134145.
Lin, Jian-Hong; Marchese, Emiliano; Tessone, Claudio; Squartini, Tiziano (2022). The weighted Bitcoin Lightning Network. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 164:112620.
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 (2022). The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets. Entropy, 24(8):1048.
Ambrosini, Luca; Piškorec, Matija; Tessone, Claudio (2022). Visualization of Blockchain Consensus Degradation. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Shanghai, China, 2 May 2022 - 5 May 2022. Institut of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1-2.
Kraner, Benjamin; Li, Shengnan; Teixeira, Andreia Sofia; Tessone, Claudio (2022). Agent-based Modelling of Bitcoin Consensus without Block Rewards. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), Virtual, 22 August 2022 - 25 August 2022. Institut of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 29-36.

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