💡 Background
Your thesis will be part of a research project analyzing opportunities in the fast developing blockchain and decentralized finance space. Blockchain use cases are rapidly evolving in a varity of different industries, backed by increasing interest and respective investments from venture capital funds, hedge funds and tech companies.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
There are a couple of topics available regarding DeFi - they require DeFi pre-knowledge, interest in technical analyses and willingness to conduct empirical research. Please reach out in case of interest. This thesis offer also provides you with flexibility to come up with your own research question in the DeFi-related field of your passion and interest.
The scope of the thesis will be determined based on your background (Business vs. IT) and type of thesis / project study.
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Blockchain
- Decentralized Finance
- Technology
- Business Models and Industries of the Future
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Blockchain
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to do internet and desk research, connect with practitioners, conduct expirmental studies
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Eva Meyer (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your experience/knowledge regarding DeFi and - if applicable - your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 eva.meyer@tum.de