Entrepreneurship
Psychological aspects of entrepreneurship
New venture teams
Informal Entrepreneurship
Responsible innovation
2022-2025: Principal investigator and project leader for a Swiss National Foundation (SNSF) research project on “Investigating Informal Entrepreneurship in Indian Slums with Satellite Data” (project ID: IZINZ1_209466/1)
2020-2022: Principal investigator and project leader for a Swiss National Foundation (SNSF) research project on Tracking and Managing Economic and Social Impact of COVID-19 through Collective Emotions, Media Traces, and Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Data (project ID: 196239)
2019-2020: Main applicant and project leader for a research project on biases in medical decision-making financed by the GFF of the University of St.Gallen
2018-2021: Co-applicant (with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Grichnik) and project leader from the University of St.Gallen side for a Horizon 2020 financed EU-project on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
2017-2020: Co-applicant (with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Grichnik and Georg von Krogh) and project leader for a Swiss National Foundation (SNF) research project together with ETH Zurich on new venture team learning and leadership
2016-2017: Co-applicant (with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Grichnik) and project leader for a research project on emotions and learning in new venture team decision-making financed by the University of St.Gallen