Faculty

Prof. Dr. Knut Blind has held the Chair of Innovation Economics at the Technical University of Berlin since 2006. From 2008 to 2016, he held the Endowed Chair in Standardization at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He also heads the “Regulation and Innovation” business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI.

His research focuses on the interplay between regulation and innovation. On the one hand, he conducts micro- and macroeconomic research into how regulatory frameworks influence companies’ innovation behavior. On the other hand, he examines standardization as a form of self-regulation—both in formal bodies and in consortia. He analyzes standardization as an instrument of knowledge and technology transfer at the intersection of R&D, public procurement, and cluster promotion. Intellectual property rights—from patents to open-source licenses—constitute another key area of focus.

Methodologically, his work is based primarily on econometric analyses of economic data, surveys, and indicators he has developed himself. In 2017, he was elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in recognition of his research contributions.

Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner conducts research and teaches at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). His interdisciplinary work focuses on the question of how trust is established in the digital space—analyzed from economic, technical, and sociological perspectives.

His areas of expertise include:

• Online platforms and multi-sided markets
• Reputation systems and user behavior
• Internet auctions and cybersecurity
• The sharing economy and crowd-based models

His findings are reflected in numerous international journals and conference proceedings and find practical application on platforms ranging from Airbnb to BlaBlaCar to Zalando.

Teubner studied industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), including a year abroad at the University of Massachusetts (UMass). He earned his Ph.D. at KIT and subsequently worked as a postdoc. He finds new balance and inspiration for his academic work through playing the piano and running (ultra)marathons.

Prof. Dr. Nancy Wünderlich has held the Chair of Digital Markets at Technische Universität Berlin since February 2021. Previously, she was Chair of Service Management and Technology Marketing at the University of Paderborn. She is also an International Faculty Member of the Center for Service Leadership at Arizona State University, Tempe/USA. She completed her studies in history and sociology at the Ruhr University Bochum as Magistra Artium and her studies in economics and social sciences at the University of Dortmund as Diplom-Kauffrau. She has been researching digital transformations from an economic perspective since her doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the topic of smart services. Her research focuses on consumer behaviour in digital markets, consumer acceptance of technologies (e.g. AI-based assistants, social robots, chatbots) and the use of digital platforms as well as the management of digital transformation, the development of platform business models and the offering of smart services and products. She has published in leading journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Retailing and Journal of Business Research. Prof. Dr. Wünderlich has received numerous national and international awards, including from the American Marketing Association (SERVSIG), the Society of Marketing Advances, the Academy of Marketing Science, the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Prof. Dr. Maik Lachmann heads the Department of Controlling and Accounting at Technische Universität Berlin. Before joining Technische Universität Berlin in 2014, he worked at Technische Universität Dortmund, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and several universities in the USA. His research focuses on performance measurement, capital market reaction to accounting information, sustainability controlling and digital transformation in controlling and accounting. His research results are regularly published in leading international scientific journals as well as in practice-oriented transfer journals. He was awarded the Prize for Exemplary Teaching by the Society of Friends of the TU Berlin in recognition of his excellence in teaching.

Dr. Massimo Moraglio is the academic coordinator of the MBA in Sustainable Mobility Management at the Technical University of Berlin. In his research, he analyzes the long-term interactions between technological change and economic, social, and cultural dynamics. His research focuses on sustainability, social justice, and transformation processes.

Thanks to his many years of experience in academia and consulting, he has built a strong international network spanning industry, government, and civil society. Dr. Moraglio has secured and led numerous privately and publicly funded research projects. His scholarly work includes over 120 publications, including monographs, edited volumes, and articles in leading academic journals, as well as participation in and organization of more than 60 international conferences.

Dr. Julia Rötzmeier-Keuper joined the Department of Digital Markets at Technische Universität Berlin in February 2021 as a Research Associate. She completed her doctorate in economics as well as her studies in business administration at the University of Paderborn, where she also worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Service Management, from 2013. She is particularly interested in the topics of customer experience and brand management as both an integral part of teaching, as well as a critical source of support for medium-sized companies in terms of the practical application of research methodologies and findings.

Dr. Nicole Torjus has a degree in psychology and has been working at the Central Institution for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation (ZEWK) of the Technische Universität Berlin since the beginning of 2016. As an officer of the Graduate Studies Support of the Berlin University Alliance, she is responsible for the program focus on Mental Health and offers courses in scientific continuing education. She completed her doctorate in the field of leadership research and has a wealth of experience in supporting young academics. She studied psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin and has several years of experience in teaching and research as a Research Assistant and freelance lecturer with a focus on business, work and organisational psychology at Berlin universities. She is a certified trainer for self-management, leadership and communication, as well as being a coach with a focus on health and stress management; and a consultant for positive psychology. She is passionate about establishing a healthy and good working environment for academics.

Prof. Dr. D. Georg Adlmaier-Herbst is an experienced practitioner who has worked for 15 years in the human resource department of the executive board of a global corporation. He has been a consultant, mentor and speaker for companies, organisations and individuals at home and abroad, for 18 years. Since the 1990s, he has been instrumental in shaping numerous processes in industrial companies and scientific institutions. Prof. Dr. Adlmaier-Herbst is currently Honorary Professor and Scientific Director of the research unit Berlin Management Model for Digitalisation (BMM) at the Berlin Career College of the Berlin University of the Arts, where he is also a lecturer in the part-time Master's program 'Leadership in Digital Innovation'. At the University of St. Gallen, he is also responsible for modules in the Executive Master of Business Engineering, lecturer for 'Leadership for the Digital Transformation' in the certificate course 'Digital Innovation and Business Transformation' and main lecturer in the certificate course 'HSG Management for IT Leaders 2020'.

Dr. Justin Becker studied business administration, worked as a research assistant in the Department of Marketing at the Technical University of Berlin, where he also earned his doctorate, and has been a professor of marketing since 2011. He has been teaching since 1997 at various educational institutions in Berlin and abroad, including the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), and Tongji University in Shanghai. His areas of expertise include marketing, market research, consumer behavior, and the philosophy of science. Through his agency, Marketing BBB, Justin Becker advises institutions, companies, and self-employed professionals on strategic marketing issues. As part of this work, he also offers specialized lectures and workshops. He gained professional experience at a publishing house, in television, and abroad at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, as well as working as a market researcher in Copenhagen.

Dr. Sang Lee is an architect, scholar, and University Docent at TU Delft (Delft University of Technology) in the Netherlands, specializing in architecture and sustainable design. His research and teaching interests include the impact of digital technology in architecture, architectural aesthetics, and the integration of sustainability. He is the author of the book Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (2011) and has lectured on these topics at various universities across the EU and the USA.

Klaus G. Kammermeier creates and conducts workshops, learn-shops and online courses. He is a trainer, mentor and speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. Mr Kammermeier is the Founder and Managing director of Cyoneer GmbH, an innovation consultancy supporting national and international corporations in their endeavour to innovate with impact. For more than 15 years, he has been leading – in technical and commercial leadership positions – multi-functional global high-performance teams in the US, Europe and Asia, to provide ground-breaking innovations. He studied Engineering, Economics and Management at Munich University of Applied Sciences, completed 'Global Leadership 2020' at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and executive education at Columbia University Business School in New York City, USA. During the last few years, he has coached and mentored over 150 founders, startups and innovation leaders and supported startup-related research programs with Fraunhofer Institute, Helmholtz Association and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). He teaches master students at Technische Universität Berlin (Space Engineering), Grenoble Ecole de Management (Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Glion Institute for Higher Education, and other international business schools.

Dipl.-Ing. Stefanie Holzheu is a media architect, creative technologist and lab manager of Prototype Showcase of the Futurium Lab and the Open Lab Night, an informal learning program at Futurium Berlin. She explores the boundaries between design and material environment with a focus on functional aspects of intelligent spaces, new interactivity in space and innovative information systems. She develops and offers bespoke workshops and courses for various companies, organisations and groups, such as ReDI and Cisco Systems. She taught architectural design and media at Technische Universität Berlin, Bergen School of Architecture, and Bauhaus University Weimar.

Prof. Dr. Eric Kearney has been a Professor at the University of Potsdam since 2014. Previously, he was Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Leibniz University Hannover from 2009 to 2014. He has taught at numerous German and international universities and business schools (including Freie Universität Berlin; Technische Universität Berlin; Humboldt-Universität Berlin; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Krannert School of Management / Purdue University; Central European University, Budapest; FGV, Rio de Janeiro; Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile; Tongji University, Shanghai).

His research on leadership and team management has been published in leading international journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. For many years, he has advised companies and executives on leadership, motivation, and teamwork.

Prof. Dr. Rand Kouatly is an international academic leader, professor and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in higher education, educational technology and corporate knowledge management as well as in professional education for managers. He also has more than 10 years of international experience as a senior project manager and consultant in various technology, market and business sectors. He is currently the Program Director for Software Engineering at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. From 2013-2016 he worked as a Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin and since 2016, has been teaching as a Guest Lecturer in Technische Universität Berlin programs in fields including Java, machine learning and Big Data. He is an international scholar and expert in telecommunication engineering and software development, frontend and backend development, artificial intelligence, deep learning, artificial neural networks, including the fields of pattern recognition, audio and speech processing and speech and speaker recognition, e-learning, project management and business consultancy. In addition, he is experienced in leading small companies, start-ups, projects and team leaders. He has also taken on multiple roles such as Dean and Vice Dean, Academic Researcher and Supervisor and study program creator in various public and private universities.

Sigrid Peuker is a journalist and communications scientist. Through her work as a project manager, system administrator, online editor, research assistant and most recently as head of a start-up center, she has been familiar with technical and entrepreneurial innovations since the 1980s and knows what social and personal changes go hand in hand with them. Ms Peuker incorporates this experience into her teaching at universities and in business, in advising companies or organizing events. She also designs and coordinates courses in the field of entrepreneurship, in which the development of the entrepreneurial personality is integrated as a decisive factor. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with more than 200 founders to develop innovations and business models. She has found the combination of methods from the arts with various communication tools and structuring approaches to be particularly helpful in bringing ideas to reality, both for start-ups and for innovations in existing companies.

Dr. Dina Deifallah is a Data Science and Analytics lecturer in the International University of Applied Sciences (IUBH). She is a guest lecturer in the Summer and Winter School of the Technische Universität Berlin as well as the University of Europe. She also worked as a Data Scientist and Data Science coach in multiple startups in Europe since 2018. She has a Ph.D. in Communication Engineering with a focus on AI optimization algorithms and 15+ years of experience in academic teaching.

Dongrui Jiang is a scientific researcher in the chair of Energy and Resource Management at TU Berlin. Her research primarily focuses on energy system analysis, with a significant emphasis on data analysis in the energy field. Since 2020, she has also been a lecturer for the "Introduction to Python Programming" course at the TU Berlin Summer and Winter University. With over 5 years of experience utilizing Python for data processing, she brings extensive practical knowledge and expertise to the field. Passionate about teaching and sharing insights, she conducts training sessions on both basic Python grammar and advanced topics such as web scraping and data analysis.

Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Schulz is a trainer and consultant specialising in Digital Competencies and Media Production in Higher Ed Teaching and Science Communication. She is Deputy Director of the Centre for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation at TU Berlin (ZEWK). With over a decade of experience, she has mentored educators, initiated and supported teaching innovation projects, and participated in various projects related to online teaching. Having started her career as an automotive engineer and specialist journalist, she has been a member of the Continuing Education digit team since 2012. Her professional journey and interests have converged in courses and consultations on digital teaching, where she supports educators and researchers in conveying their knowledge in a target audience-oriented, learning-effective, and understandable manner.

Dr.-Ing. Robert Mies is a research associate at TU Berlin, where he studied industrial engineering and completed his D.Sc. in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.). His research is on the intersection of industrial engineering, open source hardware development and open and distributed manufacturing.

His current projects are LAUDS Local Accessible Urban Digital and Sustainable Factories (Horizon Europe), Open.Make – Implementing FAIR and open hardware (Berlin University Alliance) and Fab City (dtec.bw). Since 2025, he also runs the Making Lab at the Central Library TU/UDK and the BUA Mobile Lab.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Mostofi is a professor of data science and artificial intelligence at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences and a senior researcher and project manager at TU Berlin, focusing on the application of AI in business and socioeconomic contexts.

His research interest lies in the application of data science techniques and artificial intelligence to sustainability concepts, taking into account social acceptance, perception, and attitude, as well as socio-economic factors.

He completed his PhD at TU Berlin with the grade "Summa cum laude." During his PhD, he worked as a research assistant at TU Berlin and was involved in the projects by the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) and Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).

Currently he is the work package leader of MDZT (Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Tourismus) funded by Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy BMWE since 2024 which is working on empowering SMEs by application of AI and digitalisation in Germany. Also. he wasthe visiting researcher by the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

Dr. Markus Frank M.P.A. is an Academic Councillor for Digital Humanities in the IT Group Humanities at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His core areas of work are Research Software Engineering (especially Big Data and Artificial Intelligence) and psycholinguistics (empirical research using eye-tracking). He is the coordinator of the BA program "Digital Humanities - Linguistics & Literary Studies", where he also teaches. Mr. Frank is also a lecturer at the Bavarian University for Public Service and FAU Nuremberg/Erlangen in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and digital research projects. He works freelance as a consultant and speaker on Artificial Intelligence for public institutions (cities, ministries, authorities) with the Bavarian Academy for Administrative Management GmbH.

Mr. Frank studied German Linguistics, Modern German Literature, and Philosophy at LMU Munich. He completed his doctorate at LMU Munich in the field of cognitive corpus linguistics within the structured Linguistic International Doctorate Program of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. Following his PhD, he obtained a Master of Public Administration in Science Management from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.

Dr. rer. nat. Julien Colomb is a former neuro-geneticist (10 years of research on fruit fly memory and behavior) and has been exploiting his interest in open research, working on reproducible data analysis and research data management. He has been working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers, notably through the GIN-Tonic projects.

Most recently, he moved to the TU Berlin to work full time on FAIR, open source research Hardware (www.openmake.de) and local, urban manufacturing (https://lauds.eu) projects. This combines his interest in project management in collaborative research projects, using data science techniques.

Gabriele Grea is a researcher and lecturer specializing in transportation economics, sustainable mobility, and innovation. His work focuses on smart mobility, business models in the mobility sector, transportation infrastructure, regional and urban development, and the economic and political dimensions of sustainable transportation. He has participated in numerous European research and innovation projects in the fields of urban mobility, electric mobility, transportation planning, energy policy, and digital mobility solutions. As an experienced lecturer and consultant, he combines academic expertise with practical insights into entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystems, and the commercialization of sustainable mobility solutions.