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Prof. Dr. Francesca Biagini is full Professor of Applied Mathematics and Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

She studied mathematics at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale di Pisa, where she also completed her PhD.

She was an assistant professor at the University of Bologna from 1999 to 2005, when she moved to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. 

She has been president of the Bachelier Finance Society for the 2020–2021 term.

Claudia Doblinger is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Straubing Campus for Biotechnology and Sustainability and at the School of Management.

Before accepting the appointment at TUM in October 2018, she worked as a project manager for digitalization at Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH and as an (external) researcher at the University of Regensburg.

She studied business administration at the University of Regensburg, where she received her PhD in innovation and technology management.

After her doctorate, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder and the University of Cambridge.

Her research focuses on the intersection of public policy, firm-level technological innovation, and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the (bio)energy sector.

Her main focus is on understanding how policy incentives influence firms' innovation and entrepreneurial activities, especially in the cleantech sector.

Her research has been published in international journals such as Nature Energy, Academy of Management Annals or Research Policy.

Born on August 20, 1977 in Nuremberg, married, two children, lives in Aubing. 

Abitur at the Sigena-Gymnasium in Nuremberg. Apprenticeship as a bank clerk, at the same time studying business administration.
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Employed at Stadtsparkasse Munich in the corporate finance department.
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2014 to 2020 honorary city councilor for the Green Party. Deputy Mayor since May 2020.
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Chairwoman of the Committees of; Construction; Labor and Economy; Culture; Climate and Environment as well as Mobility.
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Coordinator for Equality Politics, Education for Sustainable Development and Europe and International Affairs.

Born in Munich in 1987, Katharina studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, majoring in aerospace engineering.

After successfully completing her studies, she decided to become an MBA scholar at the Collège des Ingénieurs, which offers the exciting opportunity to acquire business and management skills through a "learning by doing" approach. As part of this program, she became a junior consultant and project manager in risk management at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, Germany.

Currently, she has her own company, Vectoflow, which manufactures special sensors in the field of aerodynamics and complete measurement systems. The idea for Vectoflow came from many years of experience in academia and industry. While working for NASA, Airbus, and BMW in the field of flow analysis, she was responsible for working with measurement systems from suppliers that are her current competition.

Katharina is mainly responsible for strategy, business development, and finance.

Robert's mission is to develop WERK1 into the top international league of startup centers as Munich's most startup-friendly location.

With the expansion of WERK1 to over 10,000sqm and a pioneering co-working concept, WERK1 will offer digital tech startups even better conditions for their international scaling from 2023.

Through his experience and promotion in the field of funding acquisition, Robert supports startups in the topic of funding and, as a passionate networker, connects startups with the right contacts from business, science and politics.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stumpp graduated from the University of Tübingen.

After his employment and doctorate in the field of numerical mathematics, he joined IBM Germany in 2005. There he worked as a senior consultant in the area of supply chain management in strategy, process, and IT consulting and was involved in various business optimization projects.

In 2009, Prof Dr. Stumpp accepted the call for a professorship at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at HM.

From 2009 to 2016, he was the Dean of Studies of the Faculty, and since 2016 he has been Vice President for Business at HM. In his department, the HM has for the first time strategically anchored the field of action Transfer at the university management level. In this area, Prof. Dr. Stumpp is responsible for the field of entrepreneurship, which is crucial for the transfer and university profile of the HM, because in entrepreneurship, the HM with the SCE, its Entrepreneurship Center, has long held a top position in the German university landscape across all university types.