Meet our team
Current members
Prof. Dr. Christian Lüthje
Institution Head
Anke Bohne
Secretariat
Dr. Katharina Kalogerakis
Program Manager
Program: Startup Port
Nel Steinkühler
Program Manager
Program: Startup Port
Dr. Marvin Klein
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Project: Fab City
Jan-Niklas Anders
Doctoral Candidate
Research Project: KissHome
Charlotte Goblirsch
Doctoral Candidate
Viola Kopsch
Doctoral Candidate
Dr. Francisco Carrillo
Postdoctoral
Researcher
Christopher Kelch
External Doctoral Candidate
Henrik Pfeiffer
External Doctoral Candidate
Sepehr Yar Asemann
External Doctoral Candidate
Timo Bley
External Doctoral Candidate
Jan Ebert
Student Assistant
Arash Amiririgi
Student Assistant
Alumni
Dr. Michael Florian
Postdoc Researcher and Lecturer
2013 – 2022
Dr. Tobias Ebbing
Research Assistant
2017 – 2021
Dissertation:
Pricing of Consumer Innovations
Dr. Friederike Rhein
External Doctoral Candidate
2015 – 2020
Dissertation:
The Dynamics of Green Innovation in B2B industries: A Systems Approach to Explain the Diffusion of Bioplastics
Dr. David Beirau
Research Assistant
2015 – 2019
Dissertation:
Which Customers Pay?
Predicting Value Pre and Post Sales
Dr. Judith Terstriep
External Doctoral Candidate
2009 – 2018
Dissertation:
Innovation, Wissen und Relationen
Zur Bedeutung von Clustern für die Innovativität von Unternehmen
Dr. Michael Fretschner
Postdoc Researcher and Lecturer
2014 – 2016
Dr. Jan-Paul Lüdtke
Research Assistant
2009 – 2013
Dissertation:
Judgmental Biases in the Evaluation of Innovations: Experiments with Information Markets
Dr. Mareike Bollinger
Research Assistant
2009 – 2013
Dissertation:
User Innovation in Techniques
Dr. Stepahnie Hintze
Research Assistant
2009 – 2013
Dissertation:
Value Chain Marketing
A Marketing Strategy to Overcome Immediate Customer Innovation Resistance
Dr. Alexandra Hüner
Research Assistant
2008 – 2011
Dissertation:
Der Wissenstransfer in User-Innovationsprozessen
Dr. Christine Elstner
Research Assistant
2011 – 2015
Dissertation:
Impacting the Sensory Experience of Products: Experimental Stdies on Perceived Quality
Dr. Klaus Iffländer
Research Assistant
2012 – 2014
Dissertation:
Social Influence on Adoption Decisons
Dr. Marc Schulthess
External Doctoral Candidate
2008 – 2011
Dissertation:
Die Nutzung von Analogien im Innovationsprozess
Eine Untersuchung der Bedingungsfaktoren & Wirkungen