Academic CV (Selected)

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Work Experience

since 08.2024 Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
10.2023 – 12.2023 Visiting Researcher
Department of Information Systems, Boston University, USA
since 02.2022 Independent Consultant
Strategic advisory on AI applications and causal analytics · Frankfurt, Germany
09.2020 – 11.2020 Consulting Intern
McKinsey & Company · Cologne, Germany
03.2020 – 08.2020 Research Assistant
Management Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
05.2017 – 10.2017 Research Intern for NoSQL databases in manufacturing
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
07.2014 – 09.2014 Project Associate in Controlling and Financial Services
GIZ International Services, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Education

02.2021 – 07.2024 PhD in Information Systems and Applied Machine Learning · summa cum laude
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, supervised by Prof. Oliver Hinz
10.2019 – 03.2020 Master Thesis (DAAD Research Scholarship)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
10.2017 – 04.2020 M.Sc. Industrial Engineering & Management, grade 1.1 (with distinction)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Incl. semester at IST Lisbon (2018/19) and fellowship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)
10.2014 – 09.2017 B.Sc. Industrial Engineering & Management, grade 1.4 (top 6% of class)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Incl. semester at UNAM Mexico City (2016) and fellowship of the National Scholarship Program

Scientific Awards

2025Add-on Fellowship of the Joachim Herz Foundation
2024WISE Best Paper Award (Workshop on Information Systems and Economics)
2024Goethe University Frankfurt's Best Dissertation within Faculty
2023AIS Best Information Systems Publication Award
2023INFORMS Information Systems Research (ISR) Best Paper Award
2022INFORMS Finalist, Gary-Lilien-Practice Prize Competition

Research Funding

356,600 EUR · 2025 DFG Middle-East Collaboration (Operational Lead)
"Designing and Understanding Profit-Maximizing Recommender Systems for Online Retailing" · with University of Tel Aviv
230,000 EUR · 2024 LOEWE Förderlinie 3, State of Hesse (Operational Lead)
"TransfAIr – Development and design of a software-supported conformity assessment for transparent and fair AI systems"

Community Work

Reviewer for Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Journal, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and others.

Associate Editor for International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), and others.

Volunteering as Youth Athletics Coach (canoeing), Founding Member and former Board Member (2018–2019) of EduRef – Education for Refugees e.V., and others.