Thomas is a Ph.D. student at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and holds a research affiliation with the MIT Center for Information Systems Research. Before this, he pursued a master’s in business innovation from the University of St Gallen (HSG), supported by a scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (sdw). Thomas is passionate about understanding what it means to drive digital innovation for sustainability by using human-centered design in a corporate context. He loves hiking, swimming, meditating, and visiting soccer games in his spare time!