Research Interests

• Digital platform ecosystems (value creation,  governance, power, established companies, complementors, B2B) 
• Digital work (software engineering, agile methods, team dynamics, project management, freelancing, IT workforce)
• Digital service innovation (immersive systems, AI, logistics, user-centric innovation, security, business models)
• Qualitative empirical research methods

Research Platforms

• ORCID Profile
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate

Academic Education

• Full Professor and Chair of Digital Transformation, TU Dortmund University
• Postdoctoral researcher, Chair of Information Systems, Technical University of Munich
• Research visits
  • Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Berlin)
  • Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
  • UQ Business School (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
  • Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane)

Academic Service

Journals

• European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Associate Editor, since 2023
• Electronic Markets (EM), Associate Editor, since 2020
• Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Associate Editor, 2020-2023
• The ACM Data Base for Advances in Information Systems (DATABASE), Senior Editor, 2020-2023

Conferences (various roles: PC member, Track Chair, DC chair etc.)

• International Conference on Information Systems
• International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik
• European Conference on Information Systems
• ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
• IEEE MIPRO conference

Committee work, transfer, and outreach (selected)

• Dean of Studies, Business School, TU Dortmund University, since 2024
• Ordinary member of the Senate of TU Dortmund University (2022-2024)
• Regular reviewer for German Science Foundation (GRK, Sachbeihilfe), Federal Ministries (e.g. BMBF), and several Research Foundations
• Since 2023 member of the scientific advisory board of Fujitsu NEXT e.V.
• Since 2015 co-founder and partner of Tür an Tür Digital Factory gGmbH, Augsburg

Awards

Research (selection)

• WirtschaftsWoche: Top 1% (Rank 29) of the most productive business scholars in DACH, Rank 5 among the most research-intensive business scholars under 40.
• Association of Information Systems Impact Award, 2022
• Early Career Award from the ACM Special Interest Group Management Information Systems, 2021
• Paper of the Year Award 2021 from the journal Electronic Markets
• Herbert Simon Best Paper Award, International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Worcester, MA, 2019
• 1st place, Impact Award from the Association of Information Systems for the Integreat research project, 2022
• Best Paper Award “Capabilities for Value Co-Creation and Value Capture in Emergent Platform Ecosystems,” Journal of Information Technology, AIS SIG GTM, 2022

Teaching (selection)

• Award for the best course offered by the Department of Business and Economics, course “IT Strategy and IT Management”
• Teaching Innovation Award in the category of practical relevance from the Department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University
• TeachInfAward, award from the student council of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich for the best undergraduate course “Introduction to Business Informatics” and “Reference Models”
• Award for good teaching, award from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich for the best undergraduate course “Reference Models”