Associate Professor
Department of Digital Design and Information Studies
School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University
July 2018 - present

Research and teaching in the field of project management (traditional as well as agile methodologies) and the transformation of the IT industry through the overall vital transformation. Research project and PhD supervision in the field of project management education. Further projects about the application of project management in non-traditional industries, in particular in the question of how different methodologies can be used in these environments.

Assistant Professor
Department of Digital Design and Information Studies
School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University
February 2015 - June 2018

Research and teaching in the field of project management (traditional as well as agile methodologies) and the transformation of the IT industry through the overall vital transformation. Special interest in the field of project management education and the development of reflective practices.

Project Manager
Business Area Information and telecommunication technologies
Competence Center Emerging Technologies
Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovation Research
April 2008 - January 2015

Project manager for different types of projects (industrial contracts, public contracts, public supported research projects)in the fields of industry, science and innovation policies; innovation management, technology foresight and assessment; and science and technology studies with a focus on ICT technology and industry). Clients ranged from public clients such as the European Commission, European Parliament, German Federal ministries, German Parliament, German Federal Army to private clients such as SAP AG, Software AG or others.

Visiting Scholar
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
August 2007 - March 2008

Scholarship by the Ernst-Denert-Foundation for Software Engineering enabling me to finish my PhD studies on software development practices in Germany

Research fellow
Institute for Digital Management and New Media
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
May 2007 – July 2007

Researching the digitalisation of the German Media industries based on selected case studies

Researcher/PhD fellow
Research Institute for Science and Technology
Deutsches Museum
May 2004 – April 2007

Research project on the interrelations between formal science and industrial practices in the case of software engineering. Participation research group of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on relations between science and industry as well as a European research group on software in Europe (Soft-EU). PhD thesis on the evolution of the German software industry.

PhD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
History/Business Administration
2004 – 2009

PhD project on the evolution of the software industry in Germany. Based on a research project on the interrelation between formal science and industrial practice in case of software engineering

Master
University Mannheim
Business Administration/ Economic History
1997 – 2003

Business administration with a focus on organisation studies and information systems. Economic history with a focus on business and technology history in contemporary time.