Teaching Philosophy

When I was a student myself, university inspired me to think critically about everyday phenomena, to ask questions, and, as a consequence, to dig deep into inspiring worlds of knowledge that I did not know before. I am convinced that individuals all possess a natural curiosity. My goal in teaching is to arouse that curiosity and to inspire students to satisfy their curiosity by gaining new knowledge. This includes dealing with theoretical knowledge and transferring these insights back into practice.

Teaching Activities

University of Bremen

• since 2021
  Human Resource Management and Organizational Theory
  Bachelor level course, ca. 200 students

• since 2021
  Strategic Management - Basics of Strategy in the Digital Age
  Bachelor level course, ca. 70 students

• since 2021
  Managing Digital Transformation
  Master level course, ca. 20 students

• since 2021
  Theory of the Firm
  Bachelor level course, ca. 300 students

• since 2022
  Human Resource Management in the Digital Age
  Master level course, ca. 20 students

• since 2022
  Digital Business and Management
  Bachelor level course, ca. 70 students

• since 2023
  Academic and Professional Practice
  Master level course, ca. 10 students

Maastricht University

• 2020
  Executive MBA
  Module "Digital Management"
  Topic: "Digital Organizations"

• 2018 - 2021
  Management of Organisations and Marketing
  Course coordination and lecturing
  Bachelor level introductory course, course size > 1,200 students 

• 2018 - 2020
  Business Innovation and Sustainable Development
  Small group teaching
  Master level, groups of 10-15 students

• 2018 - 2021
  Writing a Master Thesis - Building a conceptual model
  Lecture
  Master level

University of Duisburg-Essen

• 2017 - 2018
  Innopreneurship
  Cross-faculty master program
  Supported the development of a novel, inter-disciplinary, and cross-faculty Master Program; responsible for a teaching module on entrepreneurial teams

• 2014 - 2016
  E-Entrepreneurship
  Lecture
  Bachelor level, course size: 100-150 students

• 2016-2017
  The impact of digitalization on the world of work
  Student research project
  Bachelor and Master level, course size: 14 students

• 2016
  Entrepreneurial teams
  Seminar
  Bachelor and Master level, course size: 10 students

• 2015
  Entrepreneurship and personality
  Seminar
  Bachelor and Master level, course size: 10 students

Thesis Supervision

PhD Theses

• Since 2020
  PhD co-supervision of Timo Walz
  Thesis topic: "All together or all alone? How demographic and digital trends affect socialisation and isolation at work"

• 2020
  Member of doctoral committee
  Sanne van Wetten (Maastricht University)
  Thesis title: “Human capital and employee entrepreneurship: The role of skills, personality characteristics and the work context”

• 2020
  Member of doctoral committee
  Anna V. Huppertz
  Thesis title: “Don’t tell me how to feel! Emotional labor and self-determination” 

Bachelor and Master Theses

Since 2014: Supervision of more than 50 Bachelor and Master Theses. Topics included, among others:

• Leadership in virtual teams 

• Leadership in times of digital transformation 

• Communication and conflicts in virtual teams

• Personality, innovativeness, and entrepreneurial success

• User acceptance of enterprise social networks

• The ageing workforce: negative stereotypes and hiring decisions

• Effects of employee age on the acceptance of digital business transformation

MBA Theses

• Since 2018: Supervision of Business Consulting Projects within the MaastrichtMBA program