PhD Alumni

• dr. Ines Baer (2026)

  • PhD Thesis (2026): Underneath the surface of managing AI: Towards a practice-based, relational, and multidisciplinary understanding of managing AI in organizations
  • First position: Head of assessments and roadmaps, Luxinnovation GIE, Luxembourg
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Lauren Waardenburg
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• dr. Mario Sosa Hidalgo (2025)

  • PhD Thesis (2025): In-house, but not at home: The emerging role of data science practitioners in organizations.
  • First position: Product Owner, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Ella Hafermalz, Wendy Günther, Marleen Huysman
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• dr. Dama Diriker (2025)

  • PhD Thesis (2025): When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Harnessing Collaborative Innovation for Tackling Societal Challenges.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, KIN Center for Digital Innovation, VU School of Business and Economics, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Philipp Tuertscher, Amanda Porter, Mark Boons
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• dr. Tomislav Karačić (2025)

  • PhD Thesis (2025): Reframing AI: Three studies of AI in the laboratory life of biotechnology.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, LSE Department of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Anastasia Sergeeva, Wendy Günther,
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• dr. Coen van der Geest (2025)

  • PhD Thesis (2025): Looking Under the Hood: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Leveraging Platform Architectures
  • Awards: Henry Chesbrough Best Student Paper Award 2022
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Bart van den Hooff, Hans Berends, Joey van Angeren
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• dr. Bomi Kim (2024)

  • PhD Thesis (2024): Exploring Emerging Intelligent Technologies and the Future of Knowledge Work: The Case of AI in Radiology.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi
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• dr. Kathrin Borner (2024)

  • PhD Thesis (2024): Strategic renewal through new complementarities: Studies on incumbents’ digital innovation efforts.
  • Awards: Henry Chesbrough Best Student Paper Award 2022
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Hans Berends, Frans Feldberg, Fleur Deken 
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• dr. Elmira van den Broek (2023)

  • PhD Thesis (2023): Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Ethnography of the Development and Use of Machine Learning for Hiring.
  • Awards: The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023,   Prins Bernhard Cultuurfond Young Talent Award Grant 2020,  Kauffman Student Award for Best Paper on Information Systems, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship 2019.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Anastasia Sergeeva
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• dr. Dennis van Kampen (2022)

  • PhD Thesis (2022): Digital Solutions to Societal Problems: Studies on Organizing Collaboration for Digital Health. 
  • Awards: Best Reviewer Award TIM Division Annual AOM Meeting 2017, Best Reviewer Award TIM Division Annual AOM Meeting 2018
  • First position: Advisor International Innovation, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Hans Berends, Marleen Huysman, Fleur Deken 
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• dr. Jovana Karanovic (2021)

  • PhD Thesis (2021): PLATFORMS ACT — WORKERS REACT: ORGANISING, STRATEGY, AND DESIGN IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Hans Berends, Yuval Engel
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• dr. Julia Schlegelmilch (2021)

  • PhD Thesis (2021): Where we work: Physical workplaces in a digital world.
  • First position: Manager Organization, Purpose and Strategy, Capgemini Invent, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Svetlana Khapova, Evgenia Lysova
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• dr. Lauren Waardenburg (2021)

  • PhD Thesis (2021): Behind the scenes of artificial intelligence: Studying how organizations cope with machine learning in practice.
  • Awards: Best Division Paper Award first Runner up 2022, Outstanding AE Awards 2022
  • First position: Assistant Professor, IÉSEG School of Management, France
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Anastasia Sergeeva
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• dr. Wendy Günther (2019)

  • PhD Thesis (2019): Data as Strategic Resources: Studies on How Organizations Explore the Strategic Opportunities of Data. 
  • Awards: Most downloaded JSIS paper, finalist of the Best JSIS paper award (2017)
  • First position: Assistant Professor, University of Exeter, UK
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Frans Feldberg, Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi
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• dr. Natalja Laurey (2019)

  • PhD Thesis (2019): Design meets Business: An Ethnographic Study of the Changing Work and Occupations of Creatives. 
  • Awards: Academy of Managemen Best Student Paper Award Finalist (TIM division) 2017, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Young Talent Award 2017, Annual Meeting Academy of Management Best Review Award (TIM division) 2017.
  • First position: Assistant Professor Anthropology of Design, Innovation & Organization (tenure track), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Hans Berends, Maura Soekijad
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• dr. Jochem Hummel (2019)

  • PhD Thesis (2019): Collaboration and innovation between heterogeneous actors. 
  • Awards: EGOS Max Boisot Award for outstanding papers 2018, Academy of Management Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Reviewing Award (OMT division) 2017,  Academy of Management Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Reviewing Award (OMT division) 2016.
  • First position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Warwick Business School, UK
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Hans Berends, Philipp Tuertscher 
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• dr. Susan Hilbolling (2018)

  • PhD Thesis (2018): Organizing Ecosystems for Digital Innovation. 
  • First position: post-doctoral researcher at Arhus Business School, Denmark
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Hans Berends, Fleur Deken, Philipp Tuertscher 
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• dr. Charlotte Vonkeman (2018)

  • PhD Thesis (2018): Through a Glass Darkly. 
  • First position: Data Analyst at Digital Power, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Peeter Verlegh, Tibert Verhagen
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• dr. Nick Oostervink (2017)

  • PhD Thesis (2017): Self-Organizing Knowledge: Examining the conditions under which professionals share and integrate knowledge. 
  • First position: Knowledge valorization officer, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Bart van den Hooff
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• dr. Montserrat Prats Lopez (2017)

  • PhD Thesis (2017): The challenge of ensuring quality; Knowledge evaluation in crowdsourcing platforms within cultural heritage organisations.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Open University, UK
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Hans Berends, Maura Soekijad
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• dr. Stella Pachidi (2016)

  • PhD Thesis (2016): Crunching the numbers: Studying the enactment of analytics in an organization. 
  • Awards: International Conference on Information Systems Best Associate Editor Award 2016.
  • First position: Assistant Professor at Judge Institute, Cambridge University.
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Hans Berends, Inge van de Weerd
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• dr. Roos Erkelens (2014)

  • PhD Thesis (2014): Managing knowledge in dispersed R&D settings: a qualitative study of management challenges and insights from practice. 
  • Awards: Academy of Management Meeting Best Paper Proceedings 2013, Academy of Management PhD Representative at Large (OCIS division) 2011- 2013.
  • First position: Consultant Organizational Change, Deloitte Consulting, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Bart van den Hooff, Paul Vlaar
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• dr. Sarah van der Land (2013)

  • PhD Thesis (2013): Virtual Collaboration: An Investigation into the Influence of Avatars and 3D Virtual Environments on Team Effectiveness. 
  • First position: Researcher Corporate Communication, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Frans Feldberg,  Erik Schouten
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• dr. Nima Amiryany (2013)

  • PhD Thesis (2013): High-Technology Acquisitions: An inquiry toward micro foundations of a grafting capability.
  • First position: Visiting post-doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Centre of Information Systems Research (CISR), USA
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Ard-Pieter de Man, Myriam Cloodt

• dr. Christine Moser (2013)

  • PhD Thesis (2013): Not a piece of cake: What makes online communities work. 
  • First position: Postdoctoral researcher at Faculty of Social Sciences, department of Organization Studies, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors:Marleen Huysman, Peter Groenewegen
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• dr. Julie Ferguson (2012)

  • PhD Thesis (2012): Perspectives on aid. Accommodating heterogeneity in knowledge management for development. 
  • Awards: Runner-up for the Most Promising Young Researcher Award by the VU Network Institute (2012)
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Maura Soekijad
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• dr. Marlous Agterberg (2012)

  • PhD Thesis (2012): Walking a Tightrope: The dynamics of coordinating intra-organizational networks of practice.
  • Awards: Runner-up for the Most Promising Young Researcher Award 2012 of the VU Network Institute 2012.
  • First position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, KIN Research Group, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Bart van den Hooff
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• dr. Marc Bahlmann (2011)

  • PhD Thesis (2011): Buzzing across boundaries: An inquiry into the Amsterdam IT and new media-cluster from a knowledge-based perspective. 
  • Awards: Academy of Management Meeting Best Paper Proceedings 2010.
  • First position: Assistant Professor at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, department of Management and Organization, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Supervisors/Advisors: Marleen Huysman, Tom Elfring, Peter Groenewegen
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