Dr. Liudmila Zavolokina

Digital Society Initiative
University of Zurich
Rämistrasse 69
CH-8001 Zürich

Email: zavolokina AT ifi.uzh.ch
Personal website:www.zavolokina.com
Connect: LinkedIn

• 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

• Digital resilience
• Digital platforms and ecosystems
• Data-driven intelligence
• Blockchain and its applications

• ClarifAI: Making the Unseen Seen with an AI-assisted Propaganda Detection and Fact-Checking
• Digital Platforms and Ecosystems
• Government as a Platform
• Blockchain car dossier
• Persuasive Home Security Advice

Check available topics at our page: 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?

Information Management (2024)

Seminar: Digital Platforms (Bachelor / Master)

UZH Summer School: Deep dive into Blockchain

Seminar: Information Management (Bachelor / Master)

Deep Dive into Blockchain - Linking Economics, Technology and Law

Information Management (2018)

Seminar: Information Management (Bachelor / Master) (2018) 

Information Management (2017)

Information Management (2016)

Informatik für Ökonomen III (2016)

• 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)