CV

Sara is a doctoral candidate at the Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE at the University of Lucerne, in cooperation with the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale University. As part of this collaboration, she spent a research semester at Yale University in New Haven, USA, in 2024.

Her doctoral project in business and leadership ethics, entitled “Responsible Management Learning through Sustainable Design Thinking? A Study for Theory and Practice,” is supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger. The dissertation examines the extent to which the sustainability-oriented innovation approach Sustainable Design Thinking and the existential educational approach Life Worth Living can foster ethical, responsible, and sustainable management learning in both higher business education and professional practice.

She is a doctoral fellow of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the LaKoF Bayern.

In addition to her research, she teaches at the University of Lucerne, the Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, and the Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences. She received the 2023/2024 Teaching Award from the Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and is a Yale Life Worth Living Fellow.

She completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economic and Organizational Sciences at the Universität der Bundeswehr München as part of an integrated dual study program in cooperation with Munich Re. Over a period of eleven years, she worked internationally for Munich Re in London, Geneva, Zurich, and Munich.

Sara is married and has two sons.

Research

Research and teaching focus

• Responsible management & responsible management learning
• Business, corporate, & leadership ethics
• Life Worth Living
• Sustainable Design Thinking
• Industrial & organizational psychology

Research projects

• “Responsible Management Learning through Sustainable Design Thinking? A Study for Theory and Practice”