Prof. Dr. Claudio J. Tessone

Professor of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies - UZH

Professor Claudio J. Tessone heads the Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies group at the University of Zurich (UZH). He studies blockchains as a paradigm of socio-economic complexity: linking microscopic agent behaviour, incentives, and interactions with their large-scale properties. Among his current areas of research we can mention: effects of reward distribution on global inequality, effects of strategic behaviour of validators in PoS and PoW systems on the quality of the consensus, systemic risk on DeFi protocols. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center, a competence center of more than 20 professors across four faculties covering the most varied fields in the space and coordinates research, education and networking; it has become a top centre Worldwide. He is the Editor in Chief of Ledger, the oldest and most reputable peer-reviewed journal in the space.