Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.
Research activity per year
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roman Beck is a Full Professor at the Business IT Department and Head of the European Blockchain Center at ITU (www.ebcc.eu), Affiliated Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands, as well as Guest Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden. According to the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche, Roman is among the top 2% of all German professors in business administration in terms of research output. He is also ranked among the top 1% of all information systems researchers in the world. As a blockchain economist, his research focuses on the changing nature of institutions due to blockchain with a focus on governance and value creation and capturing in decentralized systems.
Peer-reviewed publications
Dr. Beck has published over 200 mostly peer-reviewed academic publications which have been cited around 8,000 times. According to Google Scholar, this equates to an h-index of 34 and an i10-index of 92. His research has been awarded with several best paper awards. He is serving as Senior Editor of both the Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive (MISQE), as well as a Department Editor at the Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) journal. His most impactful research in the last 5 years:
International impact & acknowledgements
Teaching experience
In total, Dr. Beck has taught more than 1,000 PhD and master students in Blockchain Economics since 2016. As supervisor, he successfully coached 19 PhD students, with currently one PhD student he is co-supervising at the Faroes Islands. Some of his former PhD students hold professor positions at the University of Miami, ESSEC Business School Paris, or the University of Queensland.
He established the Blockchain Summer School (www.blockchainschool.eu) which was held for the first time in 2016. Roman has co-authored blockchain cases with two of them published at Harvard Business School and one at MISQE.
Academic background
As a visiting scholar, he spent three months at CRITO, University of California at Irvine in 2003 and further two months at the School of Information, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2004. In 2008, he was visiting professor at the CIS Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University at Atlanta for three months and spent another two months at NYU Stern in 2010. During his research sabbatical in 2012, he was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra for three months.
Professional experience
04.2017 until today |
European Blockchain Center, Copenhagen, Denmark Head of European Blockchain Center
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06.2015 – 12.2018 |
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Head of Research Group “Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship” (TIME)
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02.2014 until today |
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Full Professor in Information Systems
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04.2008 – 01.2014 |
Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Assistant Professor and Chair of Business Administration, especially
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01.2006 – 03.2008 |
Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Post-Doc in Information Systems
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11.2000 – 01.2006 |
Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany PhD Student in Information Systems
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10.1994 – 11.2000 |
Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Master Student in Economics, with specialization in Information Systems Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt |
Research output: Other contribution › Education
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Conference article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Beck, R. (Chair), Strahringer, S. (Member) & Persson, J. S. (Chair)
Activity: Membership types › Membership in review committee
Beck, R. (Mentor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in workshop, seminar, course
Beck, R. (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in workshop, seminar, course
Beck, R. (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conference
Beck, R. (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in workshop, seminar, course
11/07/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
13/06/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
23/05/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
07/03/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
30/01/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Risi, S. (PI), Beck, R. (PI), Bonnet, P. (PI), Godskesen, J. C. (PI), Jain, G. (CoI), Astefanoaei, M. S. (CoI), Berg Palm, R. (CoI), Agerskov, S. (CoI) & Sudhakaran, S. (CoI)
Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
01/01/2020 → 31/07/2022
Project: Research
Beck, R. (PI), Agerskov, S. (CoI) & Andersen, J. V. (CoI)
01/06/2023 → 31/05/2025
Project: Research
Godskesen, J. C. (PI), Sestoft, P. (CoI), Beck, R. (CoI), Dittrich, Y. (CoI), Debois, S. (CoI) & Madsen, F. (CoI)
Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
01/07/2014 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research
Godskesen, J. C. (PI), Beck, R. (PI), Pedersen, A. B. (PI) & Oppermann, N. (Admin)
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2024
Project: Sponserships
Godskesen, J. C. (PI), Beck, R. (PI) & Oppermann, N. (Admin)
01/10/2021 → 31/12/2022
Project: Sponserships