Organizers
Hans Gersbach holds the Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy at ETH Zurich. He is also Director of CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and a CEPR Research Fellow in Public Policy and Industrial Organization. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Germany and a member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF) at ETH Zurich. He is an IZA and a CESifo Research Fellow. Hans Gersbach's current research focuses on the design of new economic and politicial institutions for the well-being of society. It also includes macroeconomic policy design, innovation and growth, epidemic diseases and financial stability. He has published extensively in these fields.
Roger Wattenhofer is a full professor at the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. He also worked some years at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Roger Wattenhofer’s research interests are a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology, e.g., distributed systems, positioning systems, wireless networks, mobile systems, social networks, financial networks, deep neural networks. He publishes in different communities: distributed computing (e.g., PODC, SPAA, DISC), networking and systems (e.g., SIGCOMM, SenSys, IPSN, OSDI, MobiCom), and algorithmic theory (e.g., STOC, FOCS, SODA, ICALP). His work received multiple awards, e.g. the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing for his work in Distributed Approximation. He published the book “Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology“, which has been translated to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
Florian Böser is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining the research group of Prof. Gersbach in 2017 he was working as an investment strategist at Credit Suisse. Between 2010 and 2015 he studied economics at the University of Mannheim, with study visits at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on private money creation and potential new forms of money such as central bank digital currencies.
Ewelina Laskowska is a PhD Candidate and Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy of ETH Zurich. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics from University of Zurich. Her research focuses on banking theory, particularly on the role of lending and deposits in money creation process, and the impact of banks on real economy.
The Risk Center at ETH Zurich promotes system(-of-systems)-thinking and theory and builds an integrated view of risk landscapes. It also serves as an interface between academia, industry, and civil or governmental authorities. The Center's research output helps society and industry better manage risk portfolios and design novel solutions for collaborative risk reduction and resilience-enhancing schemes. In establishing the interdisciplinary Risk Center, ETH Zurich became a leader in understanding the growing complexity and interdependence of our social and engineered systems, and discovering and modeling related behavioral phenomena.