Doctoral candidate in Information Systems on Institutional Applications of Decentralized Finance

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Updated: 11 months ago
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Successful candidates will join the young, vibrant, and interdisciplinary FINATRAX Research Group, which builds bridges between business research and information systems engineering. Our work is organised around four ‘decentralisation technologies’: Blockchain (DLT), Digital Identities, Federated Learning, and the Internet-of-Things. The group consists of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds (e.g., business, technology, and policy), united in pursuit of sustainable technologies that positively impact society. For more information, please visit our website: https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/finatrax/projects

Successful candidates will pursue a Ph.D. degree (Doctorate) in information systems engineering while assigned to an industry partnership with SPUERKEESS. In this project, different topics around the adoption of ideas from decentralized finance (DeFi) in an institutional environment will be explored, for instance, which information about DeFi assets customers seek from their bank or which services they would like to take. The potential impact of more decentralized constructions of existing services or financial key figures will also be investigated.

In general, the candidate will perform the following tasks:

  • Carry out research in fields of interest to the research group, such as:
    • Foundations of distributed ledger technology and decentralized finance
    • Customer expectations regarding FinTech offerings
    • Business opportunities and complexity reduction through applying ideas from DeFi in an institutional context
    • Opportunities, challenges, as well as adoption and diffusion aspects of emerging digital technologies in general
  • Disseminate results through scientific publications in outlets on the intersection between Information Systems and Computer Science
  • Support the conceptualization and writing of research proposals to attract industry partnerships as well as national and European grant projects 
  • Conduct research projects and create project deliverables 

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