Jillian graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in both business marketing and business management and is working toward her Master’s. She currently works as a research assistant to Dr. Man Hung at the University of Utah Orthopaedic Center. Jillian enjoys traveling, snow skiing, riding horses, and scuba diving.
Oliver combined a technical and economic background by studying Business and Engineering at Hochschule Furtwangen (degree: B.Sc.). Subsequently, he continued with his studies in Corporate Management & Economics (M.A.) at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. In his leisure time he is engaged in student consulting, politics and doing sports like biking and fitness training.
Sebastian is a full time research and teaching assistant at the Chair and Institute for Engineering Design, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. The main themes of his research include variant design processes, engineering design and methods. He obtained a diploma degree in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University. During his studies, he worked with different companies in automotive and aeronautical industries.
Born and raised in Munich (Germany), Georg obtained his high-school diploma (Swiss Matura and German Abitur) after a four-year stay at a boarding school in the Swiss Alps. After gaining his B.Sc. in mechanical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, he gathered hands-on experience as assistant to the VP Corporate Engineering in a major food processing company in the United States.
Liliia is a 24-year-old marketing student currently completing the master’s program at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russia. She is particularly interested in branding and value concept. In 2013 she has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Human resources management in HSE. She loves travelling and getting to know new people and their cultures. Besides she loves participate in volunteer camps abroad. For example, the last camp was about helping in organizing the Esperanzah festival in Belgium.
Maximilian is a Double Degree candidate at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland and HEC Paris, France where he is majoring in Business Management and Strategic Management. After an internship with an international consultancy specialized in marketing and sales, he decided to research on influential determinants in the purchase of flight tickets for his master’s thesis.
Laura is a doctoral candidate at TUM School of Management (Technical University of Munich, Germany). She received her diploma in psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Her research focuses on human resource management in higher education institutions.
Jasper is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics, located in the south of the Netherlands. He received his B.Sc degree in International Business and an M.Sc degree in Business Research from the same institution.
Thomas decided to join the academic world at the age of 20. At the age of 16 he pursued a career in IT and passed an apprenticeship as an IT-Engineer. After obtaining his maturity diploma at the age of 23, he enrolled at the University of Zurich and is currently focusing his research on the impacts of different economic success factors on decision-making in the film industry. As a sports enthusiast, Thomas is an avid skier and tennis-player. He likes to read, especially graphic novels, and has a very dark sense of humor. And of course he loves movies, hence his interest in the study of the film industry.
Suzanne Jervis is a Doctoral student at North Carolina State University studying Sensory and Consumer Sciences under the guidance of Dr. MaryAnne Drake. Her PhD is focused on creaminess and satiety in dairy products. Suzanne received her MS degree in Fall 2011 and she has two published manuscripts from her MS thesis. Suzanne has received two grants from Sawtooth Software Inc. during her career.
