Who I am – and what drives me.
My story in eight chapters.
- Degree
- M.Sc. Business Informatics
- Doctorate
- Dissertation submitted 09/2026 · defence expected December 2026
- Born
- 1993
- Home
- Hackenheim near Bad Kreuznach
- Languages
- German · English
Where I come from
Grew up in, and still at home in, Hackenheim near Bad Kreuznach – between vineyards and the A61 motorway, from where Rhine-Main, Rhine-Neckar, Koblenz and Kaiserslautern are all within reach. At 17 I sat in a newsroom for the first time, and the local sports page of the Rhein-Zeitung did not let go of me for eleven years. Sundays meant Kreisliga and A-Klasse football, the text due the same evening, in the paper on Monday morning. Doing that for eleven years alongside school, studies and a job teaches you two things for life: look closely, and write down what matters so that someone understands it over breakfast at seven in the morning.
Where I belong
Wherever new technology meets an old working routine and nobody has yet said how the two fit together. Between management and case workers, between IT and the business units, between the concept on the slide and Monday morning in the office. I experienced it for the first time at the bank: a new document-management system, a scanning team that had not existed before, and colleagues who had worked with paper for twenty years. Since then I have known that digitalisation is not decided in the project plan but at the desk next door.
How I work
I am someone who approaches people. And yes, I like to talk – preferably with everyone a project affects, from the decision-maker to the case worker. Talk to only one side and you know only half the story. My routine at work is always the same: first listen and ask, then sort, then put a structure on the table that everyone involved can stand behind – and then get going. What I cope badly with: endless loops without a decision.
What I bring
Five years of research at the University of Koblenz on what digitalisation and AI do to leadership and collaboration – dissertation submitted. 61 interviews with executives and experts who told me honestly where things get stuck. A sub-project lead with time, resources and budget. The academic lead of an MBA focus area. And eleven years on a sports desk where the text had to be finished on Sunday evening – whatever else the day had brought.
What I am like
I say what I think – friendly, but clearly. I would rather ask once too often than once too rarely. I am ambitious and a little bit of a perfectionist, but pragmatic when it comes to results. I bring humour and fun along, even into the third hour of a workshop. I keep my word, and expect the same of others. And I am loyal to my team, even when it gets uncomfortable.
What does not suit me
Slides that nobody ever implements. Digitalisation as a pure IT project. Meetings without a decision. Leadership that consists of control only.
What you get from me
Someone who brings research, teaching and practice together without sounding like an ivory tower. Who reduces complexity instead of administering it. Who takes along the people who will have to work with the technology in the end, because without them the best system is worth nothing. And who, at the end of a project, would rather show a changed working day than a final presentation.
What recharges me
Good coffee, honest feedback and people who want to change something. Football – in the stadium, in front of the TV and most of all with the German national team, which under Jürgen Klopp is raising hopes of European and World Cup titles again –, running and cycling through the vineyards, on skis in winter since the age of three, and at the stove, Italian first. Family is non-negotiable. Everything else is covered by the six things and four stations below – the ones that appear in no CV.
