Christina Hertel joins the GSEM as Assistant Professor

The University of Geneva has appointed Christina Hertel as Assistant Professor at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, effective 1 December 2022. Within the GSEM, Christina Hertel will join the Institute of Management.

A German national, Christina Hertel received her Master's degree in Management and then her Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2018. Following her Ph.D., she took the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at EPFL.

Her research focuses on entrepreneurship as a means of solving local and societal problems, particularly on collective entrepreneurial solutions and measuring the sustainability and impact of startups. For her work on community entrepreneurship, she received the Roman Herzog Research Award.

She has taught courses on sustainable entrepreneurship in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and co-initiated and led the International Summer School on Sustainable Entrepreneurship at TUM.

Since 2019, she has worked on developing an easy-to-use, research-driven framework for assessing sustainability and impact in startups that enables leaders to develop a workable sustainability strategy and feeds into a large database to advance research on corporate social performance.