Dr. Volker Stocker
Dr. Volker Stocker heads the multidisciplinary research group “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (German Internet Institute) in Berlin. He is also a senior researcher in the Internet Architecture and Management Group at TU Berlin, an associated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, a research fellow at the Quello Center at Michigan State University, and an affiliated scholar with the Dynamic Competition Initiative (UC Berkeley & EUI). Additionally, he serves on the board of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) and is Co-Chair of ITS Europe. An economist by background, Volker takes an interdisciplinary approach in his research, combining different areas of expertise and methods to investigate critical issues related to the digital economy at the intersection of technology, economics, and policy. His recent research focuses primarily on the economics, evolution, and regulation of digital infrastructures, platforms/ecosystems, and technologies