Academic education

04/2021 – 11/2024 Qualification as a university lecturer (positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship with regard to research and teaching, including external assessment), University of Technology Chemnitz.

04/2016 – 07/2019 Doctoral studies in Strategic Management, Technical University of Dresden; Cumulative dissertation titled as „Leaders’ resilience: A theoretical and empirical analysis” (submitted on 12/18/2018).

10/2012 – 06/2015 Master program of Business Administration, TU Dresden; Corporate Development and Innovation, Economics, Business Intelligence.

10/2008 – 09/2012 Bachelor program of International Business Studies, University of Paderborn.

09/2011 – 03/2012 Semester abroad, University of Seville, Spain.

Professional experiences

Since 04/2021 Junior professor for European at the TU Chemnitz.

04/2023 – 09/2023 Visiting professor at the University of Regensburg.

04/2021 – 03/2022 Project partner in the COVRES project, Johannes-Kepler University Linz, Business School (Austria).

10/2020 – 03/2021 Co-Leading postdoctoral researcher in the research project “COVRES: Health Care Organizations’ Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: A Multi-Level Study Across Europe” (BUS Seed Project), JKU Linz, Business School (Austria)

10/2020 – 03/2021 Consultant for strategic (human resource) issues, University of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Education and Nursing (ehs) Dresden

12/2019 – 07/2020 Research Associate for design of a HR development concept for the care sector, ehs Dresden

01/2020 – 02/2020 Research Associate for a research project regarding leaders’ resilience at the JKU Linz.

04/2017 – 09/2019 Research Associate, TU Dresden, Junior Professorship in Strategic Management

Grants, Awards and funding (selection)

• Funding of the cooperative research project “Digital Resilience in Saxon Hospitals” (DiReK). Funding from the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism in the field of humanities and social sciences (RL TG 70), 09/2023

• Funding of the international scientific event "Research symposium on resilience in extreme contexts", German Research Foundation (DFG), 09/2022

• BUS Seed Money for the high impact research project “COVRES: Health Care Organizations’ Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: A Multi-Level Study Across Europe” at the Business School of the JKU Linz 06/2020

• Transfer Award 2026 (category: voluntary commitment) at the TU Chemnitz.

• Smaller grants and awards, including Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings (top 10%, 2018), nominated for the Best Paper Award in Leadership & Team Performance Management (EURAM, 2024), Travel Awards TUD (2019, 2018, 2017), GREAT!ipid4all TUD (2018, twice), Women’s Award SPD (2019), and DAAD Congress Travel Grants (2018, 2023).

Science Communication

• Newspaper/Magazins: Harvard Business manager (forthcoming), DIE ZEIT, Stern, Deutsche Welle, Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin , DER SPIEGEL, Brigitte (forthcoming), Blick (Switzerland), Falter (Austria), German Press Agency (press release and interview were published in various German newspapers), Der Standard (Austria), RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Badische Neue Nachrichten, Freie Presse, Salzburger Nachrichten (Austria), Sächsische Zeitung, Welt am Sonntag, Dresdener Morgenpost, MDR Thüringen, MDR Wissen, Polizei Beratung.  

• Radio: WDR5, WDR „Quarks“, Hessischer Rundfunk, radioeins rrb “Die Profis,” radioeins rrb, MDR aktuell, DLF Kultur.

• Television: ARD Brisant, RTL Punkt 12/aktuell/n-tv, SAT1 Frühstücksfernsehen 

• Public Awareness Campaign: In cooperation with Wall GmbH, the DONT project launched an awareness campaign on spiking and knockout drops in 2026. The campaign features advertising spaces, including posters at bus stops in major cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf, reaching a broad urban population. The partnership also involves the Police Crime Prevention of the Federal and State Governments, which has provided guidance on appropriate steps to take in cases of suspected spiking. 

• Expert consultation by policymakers: I was invited to make expert contributions on spiking (March 2026) and sexual autonomy (July 2026) to the Thuringian State Parliament. I also participated in a discussion with the Coalition Working Group on Social Affairs and Health at the Thuringian State Parliament in April 2026. In March 2026, Linda Heitmann, a member of the German Bundestag representing Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and a member of the Bundestag Health Committee, invited me to Berlin. I subsequently provided substantive support for a brief inquiry to the federal government, available here.

• Engagement as a speaker/moderator: I am regularly invited to speak on resilience—particularly in the context of executive leadership and healthcare—as well as on spiking and related issues. My engagements have included talks at Zurich Music Week (2026), the 131st Congress of the German Society of Internal Medicine (2025), Berlin Science Week (2025), the Schumpeter Centre at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2025), the Zeppelin University (2024), the Future Leadership Forum at TU Wien (2025), and roundtable discussions organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG, twice in 2023).

• Executive training: I regularly deliver resilience training for executives using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, with training sessions held at institutions including Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2026), ehs Dresden (2022), and the Diakonissenkrankenhaus Dresden (2022).

• Organizer of the research symposium 2022 “Resilience in extreme contexts. What can we learn for future pandemic management in healthcare organizations?”, University of Technology Chemnitz (hybrid) – 48 participants from 14 nations, September 2022.
   

Teaching experiences (subjects)

• Supervision of bachelor and master theses (TU Dresden & Chemnitz).

• European Management I & II (TU Chemnitz).

• Introduction to Social Science Research (TU Chemnitz).

• Supervision of student application project within the lecture series “Business meet Science” (TU Chemnitz).

• Application project “Reflecting hospital organizational resilience during COVID 19” (TU Chemnitz; duration: 1 year).

• Introduction to Management and Entrepreneurship (TU Chemnitz).

• Resilience in times of crisis, including Resilience Training with LEGO® Serious Play® (University of Regensburg).

• Management and Corporate Ethics (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg).

• International Management (Saxon Administration and Business Academy).

• Strategic Human Resource Management (TU Dresden).

• Strategic Management (TU Dresden).

• Bachelor seminars & Research seminars (TU Dresden).

Guest lectures & external teaching assignments

• Guest lecture “The Wicked Problem of Spiking”, Umeå University (Sweden), 2026.

• Guest lecture “The Wicked Problem of Spiking”, Luiss Guido Carli University (Rom, Italy), 2026.

• Guest lecture “Resilience in time of crisis: How resilience unfolds at multiple levels of an organization?”, including Resilience Training with LEGO® Serious Play® (both in English) with German and Ukrainian students as part of the International Autumn School in Chemnitz, 2025.

• Guest lecture “Resilience in times of crisis: Insights into individual and organizational resilience” (in English), Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine), 2024.

• Guest lecture “Resilience in Strategic Management”, TU Chemnitz, 2023.

• Guest lecture “Chemnitz as Capital of Culture in the (hypothetical), TU Chemnitz, 2022.

• Guest lecture on the topic “Crises & Crisis Management” as part of the seminar "Financial crises from a practical and theoretical perspective” (in German at the TU Chemnitz), 2022.

• External teaching assignment at the Saxon Administration and Business Academy, 2019.

• External teaching assignment at the BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, 2019.

Languages: 

German (native language) English, including commercial English (fluent) Spanish, including commercial Spanish (good) French (advanced beginner).