Volker Stocker

Volker Stocker is the head of the multidisciplinary research group “Work and Cooperation in the Sharing Economy” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (The German Internet-Institute), a postdoctoral researcher with the Internet Network Architecture (INET) Group at TU Berlin, and an associated researcher with the Internet Architecture Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken. He has been a member of the Digitalizing Infrastructure Expert (DIGEX) Group at the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) and plays a leading role in the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Europe. Volker obtained his doctoral degree in economics with the highest distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Freiburg. As a doctoral researcher, he was a visiting TU Berlin, Northumbria University in Newcastle, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an economist with broad experience in interdisciplinary research at the confluence of technology, economics/management, and policy. His research interests include the economics, evolution, and regulation of digital infrastructures and the Internet ecosystem, Internet policy, and the platform economy.