Kathrin M. Moeslein - Biography#

Kathrin M. Möslein is Chair Professor of Information Systems with a focus on Innovation and Value Creation at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Vice President of FAU. Her scholarly work bridges information systems, strategy, and innovation research, with a sustained focus on how innovation is designed, governed, and scaled across organizational and inter-organizational systems.

She has contributed to shaping key debates on open innovation, service systems, digital transformation, and innovation ecosystems. Her research is characterised by conceptual integration across disciplines and by its relevance for complex socio-technical contexts, connecting technological development with organizational design, leadership, and governance. Her work is widely cited and helped structure research agendas, curricula, and policy-oriented innovation debates.

Kathrin Möslein has contributed to establishing and advancing Service Systems Engineering as a research field within information systems and in connecting innovation research with digital and cyber-physical systems in industrial and service contexts. Her more recent work addresses challenges related to Industry 4.0 and intelligent product-service systems. It has influenced systems design in a wide range of organisations, like adidas, BMW, Fraunhofer, Schaeffler, Siemens and multiple SMEs.

In parallel, she has assumed substantial responsibilities in academic leadership and governance. She served as Associate Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research at London Business School, Dean of Research at FAU’s School of Business, Economics and Society, and as a member of the Business School Panel of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). At European level, she was Vice President and President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and Vice President of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). In recognition of her contributions to the academic community, EURAM appointed her as its first German Fellow in 2015.

A defining strength of her academic profile is her sustained commitment to early-career support and research capacity building. As first supervisor, she has supervised 54 doctoral dissertations, supported 8 habilitations, and accompanied 16 scholars who later attained professorial appointments, contributing to a strong academic lineage in information systems and innovation research.

She currently serves on strategic advisory and governance bodies, including the Executive Board of the European University Alliance EELISA and the Advisory Board of the UK Manufacturing Forum at the University of Cambridge. She is also Research Professor, Academic Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Leading Innovation and Cooperation at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a member of the Executive Board and Head of the Research Advisory Board of the Nuremberg Institute of Market Decisions.