Visiting Lecturers
We are very interested in international collaboration so if you are interested in giving a guest lecture in Nuremberg, please contact us.
Recent visiting lecturers
Limor Kessler Ladelsky
Marc Balcke
Marc Balcke, Corporate Controller at Noom, Inc., New York City, USA
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-balcke-5259221?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Marc Balcke is a technology finance executive with extensive experience building and enhancing finance organizations to scale. He started his career in public accounting with Deloitte Luxembourg where he became a chartered accountant. Recognized for his ability to collaborate in a multi-cultural and international environment, he was sent to global headquarters in New York and used his problem solving skills in accounting advisory, complex financial transactions, business transformations, and project management. Entrepreneur at heart, Mr. Balcke is a creative and strategic change agent. He takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development and collaboration. Repeatedly, Mr. Balcke pioneered and delivered finance transformation in rapid growth environments by building successful global teams, developing talent, and implementing systems and efficient processes. Over the last 17 years, Mr. Balcke led teams who provided solutions to international private and Fortune 500 public companies in diverse industries including financial services, private equity, energy, telecom, media, and technology.
Last date of visit in Nuremberg: June 2022
The stay was made possible by the FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Frederik Riar
Prof. Dr. Frederik J. Riar, Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Website: https://www.iop.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/ass_prof_dr_riar_frederik/index_ger.html
Prof. Dr. Frederik J. Riar is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He was a visiting scholar at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA, and held a postdoctoral position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He received his PhD from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. His research focuses on the areas and intersections of family business, entrepreneurship, and innovation management. His work has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, R&D Management, and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, among others.
Last date of visit in Nuremberg: November 2021
The stay was made possible by the FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Araken Alves de Lima
Araken Alves de Lima Ph.D in Applied Economics, Lecturer and Researcher of the Professional Master’s and Doctorate programs in Intellectual Property and Innovation at INPI
Araken Lima is an official of the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). Since 2006 he serves INPI, first as trademark examiner, then as academic manager and lecturer and now as manager of a regional unit to organize INPI’s interplay with local innovation agents and policies. Araken Lima is also lecturer and researcher of the Professional Master’s and Doctorate programs in Intellectual Property and Innovation at INPI where he develops works with emphasis on Economics of Intellectual Property and Innovation, working mainly on intellectual property, innovation, innovation systems and agribusiness. In the state of Santa Catarina, he is permanent volunteer professor of the Professional Master’s Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer for Innovation (PROFNIT / Florianópolis Focal Point / Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC).
Last visit in Nuremberg: December 2019
The stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Tugrul Daim
Prof. Dr. Tugrul Daim, Professor and the Director of the Technology Management Doctoral Program in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University (USA)
Webseite: https://www.pdx.edu/daim-research/tugrul-u-daim
Tugrul Daim is the Director of the Research Group on Infrastructure and Technology Management and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and has been at various editorial roles in many journals. Prior to joining PSU, he had worked at Intel Corporation for over a decade in varying management roles. At Intel he managed product and technology development. He is also a visiting professor with the Northern Institute of Technology at Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg and Nottingham Trent University. He has given keynotes and distinguished speaker lectures at conferences, companies, universities and research centers around the world.
He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey, MS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, MS in Engineering Management from Portland State University, and PhD in Systems Science: Engineering Management from Portland State University in Portland Oregon.
Last visit in Nuremberg: December 2019
The stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Afina Hasya
Afina Hasya gained her master degree on 2016 at Diponegoro University, one of the top public university in Indonesia, majoring in Strategic Management. She was focusing her thesis on SME’s performance. She also has a strong engineering background to support her analytical skill from her bachelor degree at the same university on Industrial Engineering department. Now she is pursuing her doctoral degree at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg focusing on women entrepreneurs.
Besides teaching in university as a lecturer, Afina actively talks in student entrepreneurship seminars. She is also a member of several communities engaged in entrepreneurship and women’s development in Semarang, Central Java. Afina utilizes her knowledge and also her entrepreneurial skills due to increase the interest and competitiveness of young entrepreneurs, especially those who start running their first own business in school and college.
Last visit in Nuremberg: October 2019
The stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Issam Attalah
Issam Attalah, PhD Student and Research Assistant at the University of Vic Central Catalunya (Spanien)
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/issamattalah/
Issam Attalah holds a Master’s degree in information and communication sciences from Paul Sabatier Toulouse III University (France) and is currently preparing his Ph.D. on open innovation at the University of Vic Central Catalunya (Spain). His work includes the study of hackathons as a new tool of open innovation and collective intelligence. Issam has been involved in hackathons and innovation contest organizations in France and Dubai.
With a strong background in knowledge building, corporate relations and experiential marketing, Issam leads the programs at gistec, Esri distributor in the UAE, a global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology and spatial analytics. He manages international conferences such as gisworx and the GIS site exchange visits between GIS & IT leaders from the UAE and their fellows from a chosen host country. Under this program, Issam successfully led cooperation between the UAE and countries like France, Singapore, and Denmark.
In his free time, Issam travels the world, whether the destination is a small village like Álora in Andalucia Spain or cosmopolitan city like Hong Kong, you will find him practicing architectural photography and trying out new coffee shops.
Last visit in Nuremberg: April-July 2019
The stay was funded with ERASMUS Mobility through traineeship.
Rainer Harms
PD Dr. Rainer Harms, Associate Prof. Entrepreneurship, NIKOS/ESIM at the University Twente, The Netherlands
Website: https://people.utwente.nl/r.harms
Rainer Harms obtained a PhD in Business Administration from WWU Münster, one of the leading universities on Business Administration in Germany, with a study on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurial Management (runner-up of best dissertation award at WWU Business&Economics). He defended his Habilitation in Business Administration from AAU Klagenfurt on a work on Complexity and Dynamics in new venture creation processes. Since 2012, he is Associate Professor at University Twente. He has served as visiting professor at prestigious universities such as WU Vienna (the largest business university in Europe), UAB Barcelona (e.g. 18th in young university rankings THE 2017), St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, and was visiting researcher at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA.
Rainer’s ambition in research and teaching is to contribute to understanding and solving the challenges of technology entrepreneurship.
Last visit in Nuremberg: February 2019
The stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Jin Chen
Professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy in Tsinghua SEM, Beijing, China
Website: http://www.sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/chenjin
Prof. Jin Chen is a professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy in Tsinghua SEM. His diverse fields of expertise range fromchemical process control, management engineering, technological innovation management and many more. His research and teaching at the Tsinghua University mainly focuses on management of technological innovation.
Prof. Jin Chen is a member of the Education Committee of CAE (the Chinese Academy of Engineering), the member of the division of management science in council for technology and science of Minister of Education, and vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy. He serves as (associate) chief editor for several highly ranked journals.
Last visit in Nuremberg: June 2018
The stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.
Oliver Niebuhr
Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Website: http://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8080/portal/da/person/olni
Oliver Niebuhr earned his doctorate (with distinction) in Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing from Kiel University and worked then as a post-doc researcher at linguistic and psychological institutes in Aix-en-Provence and York based on the interdisciplinary European Marie Curie Research Training Network “Sound to Sense.” In 2009, he was appointed Junior Professor of Spoken Language Analysis and returned to Kiel University, where he also became director of the Kiel research center “Speech & Emotion.” Since 2015, he is Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation at the Mads Clausen Institute of the University of Southern Denmark. Oliver is an elected member of the permanent council of the International Phonetic Association (IPA), a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association and of the Laboratory Phonology book series, and an Associate Editor of the journal Phonetica. He also serves as a lecturer for the University Society of Schleswig-Holstein.
Oliver’s main areas of expertise include speech acoustics – in particular with respect to the forms and functions of speech melody – digital (speech) signal processing, and the acoustics of noise with special emphasis on its impact on human behavior and health.
Additional Link:
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/sdu+electrical+engineering/researchprojects/percy
Last visit in Nuremberg: January/ February 2018
Oliver’s stay was funded with Wilhelm-Rieger Visiting Professor Programm.
Marianne Stenger
Associate professor at the Mads Clausen Institute at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Website: http://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8080/portal/da/person/mas
Marianne Stenger is associate professor at the Mads Clausen Institute at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Her background is in International business and marketing. Over the last 15 years, she has taught various courses at undergraduate and graduate level in marketing, consumer behaviour, market research to business and engineering students. Within the last 10 years she concentrated on courses in new product development, innovation management and entrepreneurship as part of the MSc. in Engineering in Innovation and Business program in Sønderborg where she is also head of the program. Her research interests are in the fields of understanding consumer intentions in relation to green products as well as understanding the link between dynamic capabilities and innovation performance in small and medium-sized businesses.
Last visit in Nüremberg: November 2017
Funded by Erasmus+ Teaching Staff mobility
Rogelio Puente Diaz
José Cuervo Professor of Marketing at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico
Website: http://web.uas.mx/negocios/mba/faculty_prof.asp?titulo=28
Rogelio Puente Diaz is Professor of Marketing at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico. There, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on market research, research methodology, and consumer behavior. He conducts research on self-beliefs and their implications for creativity and innovation. His recent publications include “Creativity and Innovation: State of the Art and Future Perspectives for Research” and “Creative self-efficacy: The influence of affective states and social persuasion as antecedents and imagination and divergent thinking as consequences”, published in Creativity Research Journal.
Last visit in Nuremberg: July 2017
Rogelio’s stay was funded with FAU Visiting Professorship Program.