Academic Team
Meet our distinguished academic team of professors, researchers, and lecturers at the German University of Digital Sciences.
President & University Leadership
Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
Co-Founder, President
President and Head of the Research Group "Digital Education and Internet Technology"
Prof. Dr. Mike Friedrichsen
Co-Founder, CEO
CEO and Head of Research Center "Financial Technology and Law" Professor for "Digital Media Innovation and Technology"
Professors
Prof. Dr. Julia von Thienen
Project Lead (EU Projects), Head of the Research Group "Design Thinking Research and Neurodesign"
Prof. Dr. Steven Ney
Head of Research Group "Design Thinking and Social Innovation"
Prof. Dr. Thomas Staubitz
Head of Research Group "Educational Technologies and Social Learning"
Prof. Dr. Georg Loscher
Head of Research Group "Digital Management and Work"
Prof. Dr. Haojin Yang
Head of Research Group "Efficient and Adaptive AI Systems"
Prof. Dr. Felix Weitkämper
Head of Research Group "Statistical and Symbolic Artificial Intelligence"
Prof. Dr. Marco Bade
Head of Research Group "Digital Entrepreneurship and Finance"
Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Artemova
Head of Research Group "Data-Centric Language Technologies"
Prof. Dr. Sinem Aslan
Head of Research Group „Human AI Collaboration“
Prof. Dr. Maren Borkert
Head of Research Group "Digital Entrepreneurship and Management"
Prof. Dr. Daniele Di Mitri
Head of Research Group "Multimodal Learning Technologies"
Prof. Dr. Michael Bruno Klein
Head of Research Group „Transformative Digitalization in Sciences“
Prof. Dr. Tim Stuchtey
Head of Research Group "Economics of Cybersecurity"
Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu
Head of Research Group "Industrial AI"
Senior Professors and Guest Professors
Senior Prof. Dr. Raul Rojas
Head of Research Group "Artificial Intelligence"
Senior Prof. Dr. Günter Schmidt
Head of Research Group "Operations Research"
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Xiao-Guang Yue
Guest Professor
Senior Prof. Dr. Reiner Creutzburg
Head of Research Group "Applied Computer Science"
Senior Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling
Head of Research Group "High Technology Entrepreneurship"
Senior Lecturers
Olaf Peter Schleichert
Senior Lecturer & Presidential Advisor
Prof. Dr. Raad Bin Tareaf
Teaching Subject: Applied Data Science
Dr. Pejman Najafi
Teaching Subject: Cybersecurity
Dr. Hanadi Traifeh
Dean, College of Design Thinking
Dr. Lorenzo Valle Garcilazo
Former Professor for Digital Transformation and Business Developer
Prof. Dr. Anne Kayem
Course Coordinator: Identity Management and Authentication
Prof. Dr. Fady Michel
Senior Strategic Advisor, College of Design Thinking
Dr. Maurice Steinhoff
Teaching Subject: Complex Problem Solving
Tim Garbe
Teaching Subject: Software and Application Security