Prof. Dr. Marcus Wiens holds the Chair of General Business Administration, in particular Innovation and Risk Management at the Faculty of Economics of the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and is also Principal Investigator at the Institute for Information Security and Reliability (KASTEL) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
His research and work focuses on economic and systemic risk and innovation management, protection of critical infrastructures (especially cyber security) and cooperative approaches in risk and innovation management. Methodologically, he works with approaches from operations research, game theory, experimental behavioural research (behavioural economics) and empirical surveys. His research is both fundamentally orientated and interdisciplinary and practice-oriented.
Vita
| Since Oct 2021 | Holder of the Professorship of General Business Administration, esp. Innovation and Risk Management at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
| June 2021 | Habilitation at the KIT Faculty of Economics; topic of the habilitation thesis: Resilient Systems - an Economic, Operational, and Behavioural Perspective (Venia Legendi for the subject of Business Administration); appointment as Privatdozent |
| June 2021 | Appointment to the W3 professorship for General Business Administration, ins. Innovation and Risk Management at TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
| Since July 2017 | Principal Investigator at the Institute for Information Security and Reliability (KASTEL) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Helmholtz-Topic Engineering Secure Systems (ESS) |
| Sept 2013 - Sept 2021 | Head of the research group "Risk Management" and Post-Doc-Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Management and Industrial Production (IIP) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); also member of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at KIT |
| Feb 2020 - Sept 2021 | Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at KIT |
| July 2019 - Aug 2019 | Visiting Researcher at the Operations, Information & Decision Department of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Philadelphia, USA |
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017 Jul 2015 - Sept 2015 | Research Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, USA |
| Aug 2011 - Dec 2019 | Lecturer for Business Administration and Economics at the International School of Management (ISM), Munich and Frankfurt |
| Aug 2012 | Promotion to Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude) |
| Aug 2007 - June 2013 | Lecturer in Economics (E14) and Teaching Coordinator at the Faculty of Economics and Organisational Sciences (WOW) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich |
| Sept 2000 - July 2007 | Research Assistant (E13) at the Chair of Industrial Economics and Competition Policy (Prof. Dr. Karl Morasch) at the Faculty WOW of the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich |
| Feb 2003 - Aug 2003 | Visiting Lecturer at the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, ESP |
| June 2000 | Diploma in Economics (honours degree) at the Faculty of Economics of Saarland University |
| Oct 1994 - June 2000 | Studies of Economics at the University of Bayreuth, ESC Dijon (F) and Saarland University |
| Oct 1993 - Sep 1994 | Compulsory military service (Air Force) in LwAusbRgt 2 in Budel (NL) and at Lw-Geschwader 51 in Schleswig-Jagel |
| July 1993 | Baccalaureate with honours at the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Schule (Neumünster Einfeld) |
Publication list
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