Our people

The House of Innovation strives to push the boundaries of innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology research. We cultivate a learning environment guided by researchers and teachers who are among the most driven in their fields.

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PROFESSORS

Magnus Mähring

Erling Persson Chair in Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation, Professor and Department Head - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - House of Innovation.

Valentina Tartari

Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Chair, Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development.

Mattia Bianchi

Matts Carlgren Chair in Business Administration, Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - The Garden Center for Design and Leadership.

Roberto Verganti

Acting Professor, The Josefsson Family chair in Art and Innovation - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology.
Director - Center for Art and Innovation
Professor - Politecnico di Milano.

Pär Ahlström

Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Chair, Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Vice President - Degree Programs.

Mattias Nordqvist

SEB Chair in Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Center for Family Enterprise.

Stefan Haefliger

Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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EMERITI PROFESSORS

Carin Holmquist

Professor Emerita - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Mats Lundeberg

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Ingolf Ståhl

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Christer Karlsson

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Anders Westlund

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Pär Mårtensson

Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Martin Sköld

Scania Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Scania Center of Innovation and Operational Excellence.

Rickard Sandberg

Associate Professor - Devoriment of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Center for Data Analytics.

Anna Essén

Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Iman Parsa

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Holmer Kok

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Ciara Sutton

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Erik Wetter

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Kathrin Reinsberger

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Roxana Turturea

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Sebastian Krakowski

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Mickaël Buffart

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Elmira van den Broek

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Hui Sun

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Giada Baldessarelli

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Sam (Ruiqing) Cao

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Antoaneta Momcheva

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Bomi Kim

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Marco Mismetti

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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VISITING PROFESSORS

Dean Shepherd

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2024, Professor - Notre Dame University

Michael Barrett

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor - Cambridge University

David T. Robinson

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2019-2024 - Duke

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PREVIOUS VISITING PROFESSORS

Ulrike Malmendier

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2023, Professor - University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Wolfenzon

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2023, Professor - Columbia University

Linus Dahlander

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2023-24, Professor - ESMT Berlin

Olav Sorenson

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2022 - University of California, Los Angeles

Amy C. Edmondson

Erling Person Visiting Professor 2022 - Harvard Business School

Eivor Oborn

Visiting Professor, Professor - Warwick Business School

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Mohamed Genedy

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Lorenzo Palladini

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Korinzia Toniolo

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Huiyi Litan

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Gislene Feiten Haubrich

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Myong-Seon “Lydia” Song

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Mateja Andric

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Mary Kathleen Burke

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Margo Enthoven

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Rasmus Rahm

Postdoctoral Fellow, Director - Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

Matin Mohaghegh

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Eleunthia Ellinger

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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PHD STUDENTS

Anna Fahlgård Lahache

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Mimmi Westman

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Tatiana Egorova

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Uyen Vu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Xiao Liu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

John-Erik Bergkvist

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Riccardo Masiero

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Anna Baturevich

PhD student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Camille Korschun

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Jennie Fahlström

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Sina Behzadifard

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Krystal Dan Zhao-Jansson

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Ingrid Eelde Koivisto

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Qiujie Qiu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Natalie Aleksic

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Angelo Bello

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Jonas Bonnier

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Christoffer Friedl

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Michael Storåkers

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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VISITING PHD STUDENTS

Astrid Ulv Thomsen

Visiting PhD Student, Copenhagen Business School

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AFFILIATED RESEARCH FELLOWS

Tuure Tuunanen

Affiliated Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä

Luis de Miranda

Affiliated Research Fellow

Joseph Monroe

Affiliated Research Fellow

Mats Pettersson

Affiliated Research Fellow, Ericsson

Paraskevi Dimakou

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Peter Popovics

Affiliated Research Fellow

Mathias Larsson Carlander

Affiliated Research Fellow, Scania CV AB

Charlotta Kronblad

Affiliated Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Gothenburg

Marie Bemler

Affiliated Research Fellow, Scania CV AB

Rebecka Ångström

Affiliated Research Fellow, Ericsson AB

Emelie Fröberg

Affiliated Research Fellow, SEB

Sarah Jack

Affiliated Research Fellow, Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship - Lancaster University

Lotta Hultin

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - Stockholm University

Keith Goffin

Affiliated Research Fellow

Åke Freij

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship Innovation and Technology

Johan Frishammar

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Lulea Institute of Technology

Frida Pemer

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - Department of Management and Organization

Andrea Geissinger

Affiliated Research Fellow

Mark A. Conley

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - EDHEC Business School

Emma Rui Lu

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Jon Rognes

Affiliated Research Fellow, Deputy Director - Leading Healthcare Foundation

Anders Richtnér

Affiliated Research Fellow

Mattias Axelson

Affiliated Research Fellow

Karl Wennberg

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Department of Management and Organization

Klara Palmberg

Affiliated Research Fellow

Robert Demir

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Associate Professor - Linköping University

Jonas Soluk

Affiliated Research Fellow - Senior Manager, Diconium Strategy

Jan Pfister

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer - University of Turku

Robin Teigland

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Chalmers Institute of Technology

Maria Booth

Affiliated Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher - Linköping University

Claire Ingram Bogusz

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer - Uppsala University

Ingela Sölvell

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - Uppsala University

Rhiannon Pugh

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer – CIRCLE, Lund University

Martin W. Wallin

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Chalmers University

Hans Hägglund

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Uppsala University

Shiyuan (Eric) Liu

Affiliated Research Fellow, Assistant Professor - Wenzhou-Kean University

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LECTURERS

Håkan Lyckeborg

Lecturer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Joel Smedberg

Lecturer/Data Scientist - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

Asser Koskinen

Lecturer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

Johan Båge

Lecturer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

Erik Skog

Senior Visiting Lecturer

Fernanda Torre

Visiting Lecturer

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OPERATIONS TEAM

Erik Wikberg

Executive Director - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Elena Braccia

Team Leader - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Lee Malm

Executive Assistant - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Kerstin Wedin

Department Secretary - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Anna Burell Werjefelt

Department Secretary - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Jelena Angelis

Research Grants and Partnerships Expert - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Anders Reagan

Research and Communications Officer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Franziska Ewigleben

Tech Initiative Director and Project Manager at the House of Innovation - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Abdimajid Khayre

Event Coordinator - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Julie Thomsen

Service Specialist - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Megumi Minegishi

Recruitment Coordinator - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Nick Andersson

Senior Advisor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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THE PEDAGOGY TEAM

Christina Nyström

Chief Learning Officer

Véronique Roujon

Project Manager in Pedagogy and Digital Learning