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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2026 - current: Associate Professor (with tenure), Management & Organizations, Penn State Smeal. Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Initative for Meaningful Work.
2019 - 2026: Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School
EDUCATION
PhD: Management, Columbia Business School, 2019
MPhil: Management, Columbia Business School, 2016
MPhil: Innovation, Strategy, and Organisation, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, 2014
MA: Management and Psychology, University of St Andrews, 2013
SERVICE
Editorial Review Board, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2026-
Editorial Review Board, Academy of Management Journal, 2021-
Special Issue Associate Editor, Academy of Management Discoveries, 2021-2022
HONORS and AWARDS
HBS Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring, Honorable Mention, 2026
Academy of Management Journal Best Reviewer Award, 2024
Thinkers50 Radar List, 2024
"Rising Star" Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2023
Best 40 under 40 MBA Professors, Poets & Quants, 2021
Alex Woo MBA 1984 Doctoral Fellowship, 2019
DRRC Student Conference Travel Scholarship, 2017
SPSP JDM Pre-Conference Student Paper Award, 2017
SPSP Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2017
Deming Foundation Grant, 2016
Columbia Behavioral Lab Fellowship, 2014-2017
Cambridge Judge Business School Small Research Grant, 2013-2014
Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Scholarship, 2013-2014
Kurt Hahn Trust Scholarship, 2013-2014
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Award, 2013-2014
Miller Prize for Best Student Overall, 2013
Malcolm Jeeves Award for Best Psychology Student, 2013
Nisbet Prize for Best Management Student, 2013
German National Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung), 2011-2018
GRANTS
"Evaluating the Influence of Cash Transfers and Community-Building on Poverty Alleviation: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Collaboration with the Family Independence Initiative and the City of Boston" ($593,000), Co-Lead Investigator (with Oliver Hauser; more details available here), July 2019 - June 2023.
Health Foundation Grant ($60,000), Lead Investigator, "Promoting Passion: A field study to boost nurses passion for work." November 2017 - April 2019 (announcement available here, more details available here)