World Economic Forum features our Research

Stanford's Serendipity Venture Lab

and Christian's, Cheryl's and my work on Serendipity and Collaboration in the RTO Context

Link to the article 

AOM in Copenhagen, July 2025

2 paper presentations

2 panels

1 STR junior faculty consortium

more insights:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPost-7355117251781386242-jJhC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACa3sjIB7URyx-Kizu8OVBDTgMDjYorKCcM

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Boston, BCERC Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2025

What an awesome gathering!

San Francisco, May 2025: Climate Week

Panel on Circular Economy

East Palo Alto, August 2024: Videopodcast with my life mentor and boxing coach Eugene Jackson 

Our journey of breaking stereotypes, building bridges, and living real impact led to my very first auto-ethnography paper (special thanks to Dean Shepherd and Mark de Rond for giving me that extra push when I needed it). 

The story goes beyond the ring—it's about community, resilience, and creating spaces where we break down barriers and lift each other up. I miss East Palo Alto every single day. This video podcast offers a glimpse into the most vulnerable and authentic moments I experienced during my time there.

“You live what you teach,” says Eugene — and that’s what we strive for in our community.

Munich, August 2024, PhD Defense

My most emotional and important (academic) milestone so far - being a Dr. rer. pol, officially and formally :) yea!

Munich, June 2024, Panel Moderation: Transformation in the Automotive Industry

Reflections on the first Quarter at Stanford & next step toward joining the University of Auckland in September 2024  

• Out now: https://www.oekom.de/buch/wie-genau-die-welt-retten-9783987260933 

Wie genau die Welt retten? Denkanstöße zum Club-of-Rome-Bericht "EARTH FOR ALL". oekom. Zukunftsausblick, Zur Überwindung der Knowledge-Action Gap und einem Ende des "Preaching to the Choir" von Nele Terveen.

San Francisco, March 2024. 

I moderated a fireside chat and Panel Discussion 🙃

At our #GABO24 event, we delved into the differences of both markets, the present economic condition of the US West Coast, and opportunities for German companies.

Brussels, European Parliament 2023: 

Speaker at the European Innovation Area Summit

Brussels, 2023: 

We signed an open letter with over 100 academics to urge the European Commission to 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (#ESRS) 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 1, 2, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 3 𝐆𝐇𝐆 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬🚨

Boston, Harvard Kennedy School of Government 2023: 

Cambridge Social Entrepreneurship Doctoral Seminar at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, hosted by Social Innovation + Change Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School - plus some extra photos of our Day 1 all-rockstar panel.

Cagliari, EGOS Conference 2023: 

"Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination" - EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) 2023, Cagliari - It was a blast to attend the Entrepreneurship sub-theme guided by Dean Shepherd , Markus Perkmann and Ha Hoang

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#thankyou 🙏

Three days full of knowledge and networking, with (vegan) Italian ice cream.

Frank-Martin Belz and I discussed our paper on new venture ideation in the Concluding Plenary and got amazingly constructive feedback, on process theorizing and framing - thank you for being such a great community, to me as a young (and confused) scholar ❤️

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Tennessee, Babson Doctoral Consortium 2023: 

It’s these kinds of social ties you build for an entire lifespan - 2023 BCERC hosted by The University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Class of 2023 💕

It’s been many first times for me this week!

.. I have met some of my "academic rockstars" whom I’ve been reading and citing the past years. All of a sudden you find yourself standing right next to them, discussing your line of research and career perspectives - Thank you, Melissa Cardon, Marc Gruber, Per Davidsson, Candida Brush, Sophie Bacq, Tom Lumpkin, Hana Milanov, Denis Grégoire & so many more ..

The Economy for the Common Good (Gemeinwohlökonomie), Amabassador. 2023: 

Sustainability researcher

„Sustainability by default, not by design – die GWÖ stellt dar wie nachhaltige Wirtschaftsmodelle gelebt und erfahrbar werden, für Mensch und Umwelt. Meiner Meinung nach sollte Nachhaltigkeit im Sinne des Gemeinwohls standardmäßig den Kern eines jeden Geschäftsmodells abbilden. Wie das transparent & authentisch funktioniert, wurde erfolgreich etabliert durch die GWÖ. Wir brauchen dazu mehr mutige und engagierte Pioniere, die ihre Unternehmen bilanzieren lassen!“

Davos, World Economic Forum 2023: 

Shortly after I joined Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Carlos Alvarez Pereira' The Club of Rome panel at the World Economic Forum in January, I was asked for a follow-up. Back then, Carlos put on the table the offer to do "something meaningful" together on the pressing issue of the knowledge-action gap, ... or how to make sustainability sexy ;-) (incentivizing a sustainability scenario over the "non-sustainability scenario").

Puerto Rico, Sustainability, Ethics & Entrepreneurship conference 2023: 

My first ever research conference, the 10th version of SEE Society - Sustainability, Ethics & Entrepreneurship. 

Munich, 2021: A brief introduction by me regarding my work as the Program Manager of the International Summer School "Sustainable Entrepreneurship" TU Munich.

Munich, 2022: International Summer School - wrap up!

Munich, Teaching @TUM 2021:  I offered the 2nd edition of a very intense kick-off “boot camp” on sustainable business modeling, 11 different nationalities in the room. We had Marc Weimer-Hablitzel and Natalia Realpe Carrillo as amazing guest speakers with us to share insights from their personal journey toward sustainable entrepreneurship while I provided the theoretical base and hands-on tools to bring ideas into practice.

What touches my heart these days is the amazing intrinsic motivation, the purpose-driven mindset of our smart-minded TUM students who voluntarily took their weekend off to learn from and with each other, how to view sustainable development through an entrepreneurial lens.

Munich, 2021: My greatest joy is when I receive emails from my students after workshops or lectures saying that they want to continue working on sustainability and that they love my passion and have been "infected".

Everything I do, I do with all my heart. I am grateful to already be in a role as a lecturer, that I can learn from and create with young people. The TU Munich is the perfect place to combine my research with practical impact.

Munich, Summer of Purpose 2020: I spoke to Christian Felber (founder of the GWÖ) about start-up accounting, he is an incredibly charismatic person. Since then, I have been involved in the GWÖ subgroup for the creation of a start-up GWÖ balance sheet. Here we are in conversation with the social entrepreneur pioneer Torsten Schreiber, founder of Africa Greentec.

Lisbon, 2019: When the Fridays for Future Movement started, I took part in the first global climate strike in Lisbon. That day meant a lot to me because I finally felt that something was moving. It was overwhelming to be on the streets! So much energy and a spirit of optimism was magical for me! Maybe that's why I was printed on the local front page.

I can't sum up my motivation any better than that.

https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/clima-milhares-de-estudantes-gritam-em-lisboa-que-nao-ha-planeta-b?fbclid=IwAR01v7a_GMtgyc1Qkx3BLVRs-2Fgo6koz7EDRqeM4x_9lq6ypLrHagbGx2U 

Berlin, 2018: I was with Eckart at Al Gore, the Climate Reality Project. It was an incredible event to network with so many committed people and learn together. Gregor Hagedorn, founder of Scientists for Future, was here with us.