Professor of Digital Business Management

Mario Boßlau has been a professor of Digital Business Management since the summer semester of 2024. He is the Program Director of the Master's program in Digital Business Management (M.Sc.) at the Business School and represents his interdisciplinary field of expertise in various undergraduate and graduate programs at the Business School.

Mario Boßlau is an industrial engineer with specializations in business model development, innovation and technology management, as well as digital transformation. His professional domain encompasses the interface between business and technology. In research, he was head of the lifecycle project area in the DFG Collaborative Research Center Transregio 29 "Engineering of Industrial Product-Service Systems" for several years. As an expert for smart business models, he has received national and international awards. Among others, he is the recipient of the 2016 Gert von Kortzfleisch Award for his research activities in the field of dynamic business model development and System Dynamics. 

In addition, he can draw on several years of experience in responsible positions in practice in innovation management in the automotive industry and the energy sector. Furthermore, he worked in the management of an industrial service company. He very much enjoys dealing with people and imparting knowledge. That is why he has also been active for many years as a lecturer at various state colleges and universities.

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Professor of Econometrics, Mathematics and Statistics

Torben Kuhlenkasper is Professor for Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics at Pforzheim University, and head of the department of quantitative methods at the Business School. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses in mathematics and statistics, he also gives lectures on methods in quantitative marketing research, empirical methods in human resource management and methods of data science.
After completing his degrees in business and economics specializing in statistics and econometrics, he completed his doctorate in statistics at the University of Bielefeld in 2011, under the supervision of Göran Kauermann.
Until 2012 he was senior economist at the renowned Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), where he continued his work and research around the application of flexible confirmative statistical methods in economics. He continued this research after 2012 when he took on the position as a Junior Professor of Applied Econometrics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He is currently carrying out various research projects in modern financial econometrics and the Design of Experiments (DoE). He has published three textbooks in statistics.

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Professor of Databases and Software Engineering

Thomas Schuster is Professor of Database and Software Engineering. He is associated to the field of Digital Business Management and Information Systems at the Faculty of Economics and Law. He is Program Director of the BBA /Digital Business Management (B.Sc.) programme. He is a lecturer in a number of master classes. He is also a lecturer at the AHP - Akademie der Hochschule Pforzheim and the HECTOR School of Engineering & Management at KIT.

In addition to serving as the director of the FutureLAB, he also serves as the scientific coordinator for the joint project KI Lab (between Wirtschaftsförderung Nordschwarzwald GmbH and Pforzheim University). He is the campus IT's scientific coordinator at Pforzheim University (central IT department). His research interests encompass software engineering, technology enhanced data protection, and sustainability of cloud applications.

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