Professional Experience

Current position:

• Professor for Entrepreneurship (W3), Center for Management, Faculty of Business and Economics
  University of Münster​, Germany
• Member of the Executive Board, REACH Euregio Start-up Center
  Münster, Germany

Past positions:

• Professor for Behavioral International Management (W2)
  Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (equivalent to lecturer) and Research Associate
  Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group (WIN), TIME Research Area, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Visiting Scholar
  Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany
• Several years working experience as a strategy consultant and trainer at The Boston Consulting Group GmbH in Düsseldorf and Hong Kong
• Startup coach for knowledge-intensive university spin-offs
• Participation in several transdisciplinary research projects with an emphasis on IT, engineers, medicine and natural scientists

Education

• RWTH Aachen University (Habilitation – post-doctoral degree, Venia Legendi for Business Administration)
• RWTH Aachen University (Ph.D., summa cum laude)
• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (M.Sc. in Business Administration with distinction)
• Baylor University Texas (semester abroad, GPA 4.0)
• Ruhr University Bochum (B. Sc. in Management and Economics with distinction)