Trained in the social sciences (MSc) and information systems management (PhD), I contribute expertise on the governance of digital technologies – with a focus on privacy-enhancing technologies - from an interdisciplinary perspective. My work primarily focuses on digital technologies, their design and fit with organisations' goals, as well as their broader impacts on society. At large, I work on questions of digital sovereignty and trust.
I contribute to academic discourse on governance, including in privacy technologies (n.b. federated learning, blockchain), digital identity, and cryptocurrencies. My work is published in leading academic journals in sociology, administrative science, and law amongst others.
TOP PUBLICATIONS
Barbereau, T., Fernandez, J. D., & Menci, S. P. (2025). The governance of federated learning: a decision framework for organisational archetypes. Data & Policy, 7 (53).
Barbereau, T., Smethurst, R., Papageorgiou, O., Sedlmeir, J., & Fridgen, G. (2023). Decentralised Finance’s timocratic governance: The distribution and exercise of tokenised voting rights. Technology in Society, 73.
Barbereau, T., & Bodó, B. (2023). Beyond financial regulation of crypto-asset wallet software: In search of secondary liability. Computer Law & Security Review, 49, 105829.
Weigl, L., Barbereau, T., & Fridgen, G. (2023). The construction of self-sovereign identity: Extending the interpretive flexibility of technology towards institutions. Government Information Quarterly, 40(4).