Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner researches as a Professor at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and Technische Universität Berlin the topic “How does trust emerge online?” from an economic, technical, and sociological perspective. His research interests include online platforms and multi-sided markets, reputation systems, internet auctions, user behavior, sharing and crowd-X approaches, and cybersecurity. He studied industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2010, where he also earned his doctorate and subsequently took on a postdoctoral position. During his studies, he spent a year at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in the USA. His research is interdisciplinary and finds application in a variety of digital platforms – from the A’s of Amazon/Airbnb; to the B’s of BlaBlaCar/Booking; and the C’s of Clickworker/Craigslist,… to the Z’s of Zimride/Zalando. Prof. Dr. Teubner finds inspiration for his research at the piano and during (ultra) marathons. His research has been published in numerous renowned international journals and conference proceedings. Course:DATA SCIENCE TOOLBOX

Prof. Dr. Maik Lachmann heads the Department of Controlling and Accounting at Technische Universität Berlin. Before joining Technische Universität Berlin in 2014, he worked at Technische Universität Dortmund, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and several universities in the USA.

His research focuses on performance measurement, capital market reaction to accounting information, sustainability controlling and digital transformation in controlling and accounting. His research results are regularly published in leading international scientific journals as well as in practice-oriented transfer journals.

He was awarded the Prize for Exemplary Teaching by the Society of Friends of the TU Berlin in recognition of his excellence in teaching..

 

Course:

Corporate Accounting – Financial and Cost Accounting

Dr. Massimo Moraglio is an Academic Coordinator of the MBA Sustainable Mobility Management at the Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on technology and its wide effects on economic, social, and cultural fields, exploring its long-term trends. He gives attention to the crucial topics of sustainability, justice, and environmental studies, focusing on transitions, futures, and cultural shifts.

Through his work in academia and consultancy, he built a wide network with industry managers, public agency officers, and NGO advocates. He has acquired and managed many research grants from national and international (both private and public) funding schemes, opening meaningful international dialogue on issues of long-term assessment of technology and its transition toward a smart and sustainable future.

His publications number 120+, encompassing books (as an author, editor, and co-editor) and articles in international journals. He has co-organized and participated in 60+ national and international conferences.

 

Courses:

• DIGITALIZING MOBILITY
• MOBILITY FUTURES

Dr. Julia Rötzmeier-Keuper joined the Department of Digital Markets at Technische Universität Berlin in February 2021 as a Research Associate. She completed her doctorate in economics as well as her studies in business administration at the University of Paderborn, where she also worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Service Management, from 2013.

She is particularly interested in the topics of customer experience and brand management as both an integral part of teaching, as well as a critical source of support for medium-sized companies in terms of the practical application of research methodologies and findings.

 

Course:

BASIC KNOWLEDGE BRAND MANAGEMENT

Dr. Nicole Torjus has a degree in psychology and has been working at the Central Institution for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation (ZEWK) of the Technische Universität Berlin since the beginning of 2016. As an officer of the Graduate Studies Support of the Berlin University Alliance, she is responsible for the program focus on Mental Health and offers courses in scientific continuing education.

She completed her doctorate in the field of leadership research and has a wealth of experience in supporting young academics. She studied psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin and has several years of experience in teaching and research as a Research Assistant and freelance lecturer with a focus on business, work and organisational psychology at Berlin universities. She is a certified trainer for self-management, leadership and communication, as well as being a coach with a focus on health and stress management; and a consultant for positive psychology. She is passionate about establishing a healthy and good working environment for academics.

 

Courses:

• LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS
• HEALTHY LEADERSHIP

Prof. Dr. D. Georg Adlmaier-Herbst is an experienced practitioner who has worked for 15 years in the human resource department of the executive board of a global corporation. has worked for 15 years in the human resource department of the executive board of a global corporation. He has been a consultant, mentor and speaker for companies, organisations and individuals at home and abroad, for 18 years.

Since the 1990s, he has been instrumental in shaping numerous processes in industrial companies and scientific institutions. Prof. Dr. Adlmaier-Herbst is currently Honorary Professor and Scientific Director of the research unit Berlin Management Model for Digitalisation (BMM) at the Berlin Career College of the Berlin University of the Arts, where he is also a lecturer in the part-time Master’s program ’Leadership in Digital Innovation’. At the University of St. Gallen, he is also responsible for modules in the Executive Master of Business Engineering, lecturer for ’Leadership for the Digital Transformation’ in the certificate course ’Digital Innovation and Business Transformation’ and main lecturer in the certificate course ’HSG Management for IT Leaders 2020’.

Further information about him can be found on his website.

 

Courses:

• CHANGE-MANAGEMENT – NEW APPROACHES FOR INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION
• COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

Dr. Justin Becker hat BWL studiert, als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fachbereich Marketing der Technischen Universität Berlin gearbeitet und dort auch promoviert und ist seit 2011 Professor für Marketing. Er unterrichtet seit 1997 an diversen Berliner- und internationalen Bildungseinrichtungen, wie der UdK und der TU Berlin sowie der Tongji-Universität in Shanghai.

Seine Schwerpunkte sind Marketing, Marktforschung, Konsumentenverhalten und Wissenschaftstheorie. In seiner Agentur Marketing BBB berät Justin Becker Institutionen, Unternehmen und Selbstständige in Fragen des strategischen Marketings. In diesem Rahmen bietet er auch Fachvorträge und Workshops an. Berufserfahrung sammelte er unter anderem in einem Verlag, beim Fernsehen und im Ausland an der Universiteit van Amsterdam und als Marktforscher in Kopenhagen.

 

Kurse:

• DIGITALE MARKTFORSCHUNG
• STRATEGISCHES MARKETING

Dr. Sang Lee is an architect and holds a doctorate in architecture. He teaches at the TU Delft (Netherlands), where he specializes in architecture and sustainable design. He has also lectured on architecture and sustainability at several universities in the EU and the USA. Dr. Lee’s contributed to numerous international conferences, journals, and books. His influential publication, “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” (2011), which has attracted considerable attention. Over the past decade, he has expanded his research work to encompass a broad range of applications beyond traditional architecture. Dr. Lee believes that architectural thinking plays a vital role in fostering sustainability, as the built environment, including our cities, buildings, and objects, forms a large majority of our physical world and substantially shapes our daily experiences. Drawing on his extensive expertise as an architect and sustainability advocate, he offers valuable insights into relevant topics and practical applications that are essential for the development of scalable products and services.  

Courses:

• SCOUTING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
• FOUNDATIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Klaus G. Kammermeier creates and conducts workshops, learn-shops and online courses. He is a trainer, mentor and speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. Mr Kammermeier is the Founder and Managing director of Cyoneer GmbH, an innovation consultancy supporting national and international corporations in their endeavour to innovate with impact. For more than 15 years, he has been leading – in technical and commercial leadership positions – multi-functional global high-performance teams in the US, Europe and Asia, to provide ground-breaking innovations.

He studied Engineering, Economics and Management at Munich University of Applied Sciences, completed ‘Global Leadership 2020‘ at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and executive education at Columbia University Business School in New York City, USA.

During the last few years, he has coached and mentored over 150 founders, startups and innovation leaders and supported startup-related research programs with Fraunhofer Institute, Helmhotz Association and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). He teaches master students at Technische Universität Berlin (Space Engineering), Grenoble Ecole de Management (Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Glion Institute for Higher Education, and other international business schools.

 

Courses:

• INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION
• INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
• SOFT SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS

Dipl.-Ing. Stefanie Holzheu is a media architect, creative technologist and lab manager of Prototype Showcase of the Futurium Lab and the Open Lab Night, an informal learning program at Futurium Berlin. She explores the boundaries between design and material environment with a focus on functional aspects of intelligent spaces, new interactivity in space and innovative information systems. She develops and offers bespoke workshops and courses for various companies, organisations and groups, such as ReDI and Cisco Systems. She taught architectural design and media at Technische Universität Berlin, Bergen School of Architecture, and Bauhaus University Weimar.

Course:

SCOUTING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

Prof. Dr. Eric Kearney has been a Professor of Leadership at the University of Potsdam since April 2014. Prior to this role, he was a Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Economics of Leibniz Universität Hannover. He has taught at numerous German and international universities and business schools including Freie Universität Berlin; Technische Universität Berlin; Humboldt-Universität Berlin; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Krannert School of Management / Purdue University; Central European University, Budapest; FGV, Rio de Janeiro; Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile; and Tongji University, Shanghai.

His research in leadership and team management has been published in leading international journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and the Journal of Applied Psychology. For many years, he has advised companies and managers on the topics of leadership, motivation and teamwork.

Courses:

• NEW LEADERSHIP
• LEADING TEAMS SUCCESSFULLY

Prof. Dr. Rand Kouatly is an international academic leader, professor and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in higher education, educational technology and corporate knowledge management as well as in professional education for managers. He also has more than 10 years of international experience as a senior project manager and consultant in various technology, market and business sectors.

He is currently the Program Director for Software Engineering at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. From 2013-2016 he worked as a Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin and since 2016, has been teaching as a Guest Lecturer in Technische Universität Berlin programs in fields including Java, machine learning and Big Data.

He is an international scholar and expert in telecommunication engineering and software development, frontend and backend development, artificial intelligence, deep learning, artificial neural networks, including the fields of pattern recognition, audio and speech processing and speech and speaker recognition, e-learning, project management and business consultancy. In addition, he is experienced in leading small companies, start-ups, projects and team leaders. He has also taken on multiple roles such as Dean and Vice Dean, Academic Researcher and Supervisor and study program creator in various public and private universities.

Course:

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMING FOR DATA SCIENCE

Sigrid Peuker is a journalist and communications scientist. Through her work as a project manager, system administrator, online editor, research assistant and most recently as head of a start-up center, she has been familiar with technical and entrepreneurial innovations since the 1980s and knows what social and personal changes go hand in hand with them. Ms Peuker incorporates this experience into her teaching at universities and in business, in advising companies or organizing events. She also designs and coordinates courses in the field of entrepreneurship, in which the development of the entrepreneurial personality is integrated as a decisive factor.

Over the past 20 years, she has worked with more than 200 founders to develop innovations and business models. She has found the combination of methods from the arts with various communication tools and structuring approaches to be particularly helpful in bringing ideas to reality, both for start-ups and for innovations in existing companies.

Course:

ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING AND BEHAVIOUR IN TURBULENT TIMES

Dr. Dina Deifallah is a Data Science and Analytics lecturer in the International University of Applied Sciences (IUBH). She is a guest lecturer in the Summer and Winter School of the Technische Universität Berlin as well as the University of Europe. She also worked as a Data Scientist and Data Science coach in multiple startups in Europe since 2018. She has a Ph.D. in Communication Engineering with a focus on AI optimization algorithms and 15+ years of experience in academic teaching.

Courses:

• INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALISATION
• RELATIONAL DATABASES AND DATA QUERYING

Dongrui Jiang is a scientific researcher in the chair of Energy and Resource Management at TU Berlin. Her research primarily focuses on energy system analysis, with a significant emphasis on data analysis in the energy field.

Since 2020, she has also been a lecturer for the “Introduction to Python Programming” course at the TU Berlin Summer and Winter University. With over 5 years of experience utilizing Python for data processing, she brings extensive practical knowledge and expertise to the field. Passionate about teaching and sharing insights, she conducts training sessions on both basic Python grammar and advanced topics such as web scraping and data analysis.

 

Course:

PRACTICAL PYTHON APPLICATIONS 14.02.2025 – 07.03.2025

Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Schulz is a trainer and consultant specialising in Digital Competencies and Media Production in Higher Ed Teaching and Science Communication. She is Deputy Director of the Centre for Scientific Continuing Education and Cooperation at TU Berlin (ZEWK).

With over a decade of experience, she has mentored educators, initiated and supported teaching innovation projects, and participated in various projects related to online teaching. Having started her career as an automotive engineer and specialist journalist, she has been a member of the Continuing Education digit team since 2012. Her professional journey and interests have converged in courses and consultations on digital teaching, where she supports educators and researchers in conveying their knowledge in a target audience-oriented, learning-effective, and understandable manner.

 

Course:

THE ONLINE CLASSROOM: STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL LEARNING 21.02.2025 + 28.02.2025