Positions
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since 08/2020: Professor of Digitization, Innovation and Intellectual Property, University of Lausanne, HEC, Switzerland
- since 08/2025: Full Professor
- 08/2020- 07/2025: Associate Professor (with tenure)
- since 01/2022: Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management
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06/2019-08/2020: Senior Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Center for Law and Economics, Switzerland
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09/2017-08/2020: Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Management, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal
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02/2014-09/2017: Senior Research Associate, Chair for Entrepreneurship, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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03/2011-01/2014: Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization, LMU Munich, Germany
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09/2009-03/2011: Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Economic Policy, Ulm University, Germany
Affiliations
- Research Fellow at ETH Zurich, Center for Law and Economics , Zurich, Switzerland
- CESifo Research Network Affiliate, Munich, Germany
- CREATe Fellow, UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Research visits
- Google Deepmind (01/2026-04/2026), London, UK
- ifo Institute, Center for Industrial Organization and New Technologies, Munich, Germany (07/2021), with Anna Kerkhof
- ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich, Switzerland (07/2018-10/2018), with Antonio Russo
- Northeastern University, Economics Department, Boston, USA (11/2016, 01/2017, 08/2017), with Imke Reimers
- Hunter College at CUNY, Economics Department, New York, USA (07/2013, 08/2014, 02/2015, 01/2016, 04/2016), with Lisa George
- ZEW Mannheim, Digital Economy Research Group, Mannheim, Germany (2009, 2010), with Irene Bertschek
Education
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03/2011-05/2014: Doctor oeconomiae publicae (equivalent to PhD; summa cum laude), LMU Munich, Germany
- Advisors: Tobias Kretschmer, Dietmar Harhoff
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03/2011-05/2013: Master of Business Research, LMU Munich, Germany
References
- Stefan Bechtold, Center for Law and Economics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Stefano Brusoni, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany
- Tobias Kretschmer, Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization, LMU Munich, Germany
- Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA
- Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA
Grants and Scholarships
- 2025: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for "From Tops to Tails: Decoding the Hidden Patterns in Cultural Consumption" (CHF 289,480), Co-PI with Wojciech Hardy
- 2025: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for Conference (CHF 12,000), with Giorgio Zanarone
- 2024: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for reduction of teaching commitments (CHF 24,000)
- 2024: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant for "Digital Market Regulation: Monitoring Enforcement and Evaluating Outcomes" (CHF 1,147,468), Co-PI with Stefan Bechtold
- 2024: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for Conference (CHF 20,000), via Stefan Bechtold
- 2023: Bridge funding from Enterprise for Society Center for "Welfare Effects of Sustainability Information in E-Commerce" (CHF 2,500), with Reinhold Kesler, Sabina Tomkins and Amit Zac
- 2023: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for Conference (CHF 10,000), with Giorgio Zanarone
- 2023: Congressi Stefano Franscini Grant for Conference (CHF 17,000), with Stefan Bechtold and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
- 2022: HEC Lausanne Teaching Grant for "Innovation in Learning with 3D" (CHF 18,000), with Rafael Lalive and Tobias Schlager
- 2020: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant for "Data Economy: Innovation, Organization, Regulation" (CHF 794,164), PI, Project website
- 2018: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Research Grant (EU H2020, EUR 238,894), Co-PI with Miguel Godinho de Matos
- 2016: University of Zurich Graduate Campus Grant (CHF 10,000), with Juliane Lischka and Paolo Bizzozero
- 2015: German Economic Association and German National Bank, Grant for Presentation at International Conferences
- 2014: NET Institute Summer Grant (USD 3,000), with Lisa M. George
- 2013: NBER Economics of Digitization and Copyright Initiative Research Grant (USD 15,000), with Jörg Claussen and Tobias Kretschmer
- 2011: German Economic Association and Swiss National Bank, Grant for Presentation at International Conferences
- 2008: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship
Awards
- 2024: INFORMS Annual Meeting, Best Paper Award Information Systems Society Cluster, with Florian Abeillon, Franziska Kaiser, Jérémie Haese and Alexander Staub
- 2022: Strategy Science Conference, Best Paper Award, with Annamaria Conti and Maria Roche
- 2021: Management Science, Meritorious Service Award as Reviewer
- 2019: Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Overall Best Paper Award, with Jörg Claussen and Ananya Sen
- 2014: LMU Management Alumni Dissertation Award
Professional Activities and Services
Policy
- Member of the United Nations CSTD Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance at All Levels
- Expert in a hearing of the European Parliament (Generative AI and Copyright, 2025)
Editorship
- Special Issue Associate Editor at MISQ
- Associate Editor at Information Economics and Policy
- Associate Editor for ICIS (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025) and ECIS (2020)
Reviewer for journals
- Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, American Economic Review, Applied Economics Letters, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Communications of the ACM, Economic Inquiry, Empirica, European Journal of Law and Economics, European Economic Review, European Management Review, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Information Economics and Policy, Information Systems Research, Informs Journal on Computing, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Media Business Studies, Journal of Strategy and Business, Labor Economics, Leadership Quarterly, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Management Science, Marketing Science, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Economics, Research Policy, Schmalenbach Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Technology in Society, Technovation, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.
Reviewer for Founding agencies
- European Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, French National Research Agency, Czech Science Foundation, National Science Center Poland, Israel Science Foundation, Hi!Paris - Artificial Intelligence for Society Center
Member of the Organizing Committee / Track Organizer
- International Industrial Organization Conference (2025, 2026), Mapping and Governing the Online World (2024, 2025), Lausanne Management and Economics Workshop (2024, 2025), Munich Summer Institute (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), Digital Economy Workshop Lausanne (2023), Track Organizer for International Conference on Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2022, 2023), Track Organizer for Applied Machine Learning Days (2022, 2024), ISDAEB Workshop (2022), Area Organizer for European Association of Law and Economics Annual Conference (2020), Media and Digitization Meeting Zurich (2019), Digital Economy Workshop Lisbon (2019), Media Economics Workshop Zurich (2016), Management and Economics of ICT Conference Munich (2012)
- Co-Organizer of Virtual Digital Economy Seminar (2020-2023)
Students and Postdocs
- since 2025: Leon Knoke (PhD Student in Digital Market Regulation Project)
- since 2021: Jérémie Haese (PhD Student in Data Economy Project)
- until 2025: Alexander Staub (former Postdoc in Data Economy Project, currently Assistant Professor at Esade)
- until 2025: Franziska Kaiser (former PhD Student, currently postdoc at University of Zurich)
- until 2024: Anthi Kiouka (former PhD Student, co-supervision with Tobias Schlager, currently in industry)
- until 2022: Erdem Dogukan Yilmaz (former Postdoc in Data Economy Project, currently Assistant Professor at INSEAD, before at Rotterdam School of Management)
- until 2021: Margaritha Windisch (former RA, currently PhD Student at ETH Zürich), Ilia Azizi (former RA, currently PhD Student at HEC Lausanne), Martin Quinn (former Postdoc in DigiCreation Project at Católica-Lisbon, currently Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management)