Vita
Professional Experience
- Professor for Entrepreneurship, Center for Management and Exzellenz Start-up Center.NRW (since June 2020)
School of Business and Economics, University of Muenster - Adjunct Scholar/Assistant Professor
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group (WIN), TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University (member since 2013) - Professor for Behavioral International Management (2019-2020)
Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg - Visiting Scholar
Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany - Startup coach for knowledge-intensive university spin-offs, active entrepreneur and business angel
- Several years working experience as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group GmbH in Düsseldorf and Hong Kong
- National and international teaching experience as lecturer (e.g., Tsinghua University, Beijing)
- Participation in several transdisciplinary research projects with an emphasis on medicine, IT, engineers and natural scientists (e.g., DFG Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production Technology in High-Wage Countries”)
Education
Studies of Economics and Management
- RWTH Aachen University (Ph.D., summa cum laude)
- Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (M.Sc. with distinction)
- Baylor University Texas (GPA 4.0)
- Ruhr University Bochum (B. Sc. with distinction)