• 1994-1999: Studied electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU)
• 1999-2001: Scholarship in the DAAD program "Language and Practice in Japan"
• 2001-2005: Doctoral studies at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

• 2001: Sales representative for electronic commerce software
• 2001-2004: Research Assistant at the Chair of Electronic Business at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder)
• 2004-2009: Management Consultant
• 2009-2017: Venture Capital Investor (“VC”)
• Since 2018: Professor at the departement of Economics at THM

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• Business Informatics and Digital Business (B.Sc., together with Prof. Leyh)
• Digital Business Models and Digital Transformation (B.Sc.)
• Digital Business Models (M.Sc., only in the summer semester)
• Project module E-commerce and digital marketing (M.Sc., together with Prof. Kiesel and Mr. Schäfer, only in the summer semester)
• Digital Transformation and Change Management (M.Sc., together with Prof. Freidank, only in the winter semester)
• Master Thesis Seminar (M.Sc.)
• Digital Business (MBA, together with Prof. Sames, only in the summer semester)

• Project Management (B.Sc., until summer semester 2023)
• Current topics in Business Informatics and Digital Business (B.Sc., until Summer Semester 2020)

A current list of open or available topics for (Bachelor's/Master's) theses, as well as some basic information regarding supervision, can be found here.

• DIGIMARI – German-Japanese network for digital transformation (2019-2021, €203,000)
• VLUID – Development of data-based applications for intelligent traffic management (2021-2025, €163,000)
• SmaCoBiz – Smart Contracts for Businesses (2024-2026, €60 thousand)