Research profile

I am a researcher of organizational behaviour with a background in chemical engineering and risk management. 

My research explores how engineering-oriented organizations deal with high degrees of uncertainty through their projects and programmes. I work with theories from cognitive psychology and social sciences to explore individual and group behaviour in these settings. For example, my research has addressed questions related to the cognitive processes of risk and opportunity identification in projects, or front-end project decision-making. In another study, I have reported on the use of different communication strategies that a project organization had used to coordinate in a highly uncertain crisis situation. 

I leverage my academic and professional background in engineering to connect such questions to current practical problems of the industry. Concretely, I lead a research project investigating how organizations along the plastics value chain can cope with the uncertainties related to a transformation towards circular plastics. Moreover, I am part of a research team exploring how manufacturing SMEs can make sense of and engage with the uncertainties associated with various digital transformation opportunities. 

Teaching profile

I teach and supervise in the following AAU programmes:

• Operations and Innovation Management (Master Programme)
  • Semester coordination 1st and 2nd semester
  • Operation Analysis and Design (5 ECTS course)
  • Group and individual project supervision 1st-4th semester
• Global Business Engineering (Bachelor)
  • Bachelor Thesis Supervision
• Master in Management of Technology (Executive Education)
  • Technology Management
  • Project organizing

I moreover am or have taught the following courses (selection): 

• Project Risk Management (2-day module as part of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager education, Controller Institut, Austria; 2019 - ongoing)
• Risk & Resilience (2-day study trip within the post-graduate Master education in Risk Management, University of Twente; 2019 - ongoing)
• Project Management (2.5-5 ECTS; various master programmes at AAUBS; 2021-2024)
• Supply Chain Risk Management (2.5 ECTS course in Bachelor of Logistics, BFI University of Applied Sciences, Austria; 2014-2018)