Work and Research interests

Corporate compliance, Misconducts in companies, organisational bystanding, Speak-up Culture, Raising the propensity to speak up in organizations.

Currently developing an online multiplayer compliance training video game to promote speak up culture and collect evidence-based data.

Knowledge transfer in the economy.

Organized & organizational crime and corruption.

Research Projects

Current:

• Leveraging Generative AI in Anti-Corruption: A Framework for the Adoption and Use of Generative AI in Combating Corruption
• ESG in Companies, Global Best Practices and Awareess Trainings
• ESG: Impact assessment of environmental, social, and governance frameworks within organisations together with University of Manchester, Seed Funding September 2024-March 2026
• The Manchester-Heidelberg Illicit Finance and Politics Network (Sep 2023 - July 2024) Seed Funding
• Misconduct in organizations: How to improve speak-up cultures? (KBA-NotaSys Integrity Fund, Feb.2023-Sep. 2023)
• Corporate Misconduct – How to Increase the Likelihood to Report? (March 2022-March 2024)

Teaching

• Corporate Compliance Measures (BA, WiSe 2022/2023)
• Rule Deviations in Organizations (BA, WiSe 2023/2024; BA, SoSe 2024)
• White Collar Crime (BA, WiSe 2024/2025; BA, SoSe 2025)
• ESG and Compliance (BA, WiSe 2025/2026)
• Lecture: Soziologie of Organizations and Economy (WiSe 25/26)

(Actual) Events and conferences

• Co-chair on the Panel on Technological Revolution: The Role of Tech, AI and Machine Learning in Political Corruption with Paulina Alvarado-Goldman with a paper on: "Artificial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption: Mapping Institutional Frameworks, Legal Constraints, and Governance Risk" together with Paulina Alvarado-Goldman, 28th World Congress of Political Science, Seoul, July 2025.
• Workshop: Impact Assessment of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Frameworks within  Organizations, held at the University of Manchester, organized by the Manchester Organizational Non-VCompliance Initiative, in June 2025.
• "ESG Compliance in the Romanian Timber Industry", within a Workshop on ESG Compliance in Germany, Uk and the Netherlands, held in December 2024 in Heidelberg in Collaboration with the Manchester Organisational Non-Compliance Initiative (Manchester University).
• "Breaking the Silence: Analyzing the Propensity to Speak up in Field Experiments”, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM). Bucharest, September 2024
• ''How to Analyse 'Systemic' Corruption - The Case of Romania', IPSA RC20 Political Finance and Political Corruption, Oxford Juli 2024.
• Finalist on the Impact Day at the HeiInnovation ideas competition with our speak-up sensitization training and multiplayer video game.
• "Unethical Silence - The Collective Ommission to Speak-Up", EBEN Research Conference on Multiple responsibilities: grasp all, lose all?" Together with Dr. Kristina Höly. Paris, October 2023.
• ''How to Analyse 'Systemic' Corruption - The Case of Romania'', 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM). Florence, September 2023
• ''How to Analyse 'Systemic' Corruption - The Case of Romania'', International Conference on ''New Challenges for the Criminal Investigation of Organized Crime''. Porto, May 2023
• White-Collar Workshops in Romania, Autumn 2022
• Management Workshops in Romania, May 2023

       OCS Blog-Beiträge

• “Ghostly” corruption – The clear-cut in the Carpathians / “Geisterhafte” Korruption – Der Kahlschlag in den Karpaten together with Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann (10.02.2023)Memberships

• IPSA
• Member of the Board of the Research Council on Political Finance and Political Corruption (RC20) of the IPSA (2024-2026)
• Co-secretary of the Research Council on Political Finance and Political Corruption (RC20) of the IPSA (2025-2027)

Curriculum Vitae

• Seit 01/2022: Research Associate at the Chair of Organizational Sociology, Max Weber Institute for Sociology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
• 02/2021 - 08/2021: Internship at the Fach- und Methodenbereich, Portal für interne Kunden, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn
• 2018-2020: Master Degree in Political Science, IPW, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
• 11/2019-02/2020: Student Assistant for the project ''Populism, Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding'', with Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant
• 04/2019-09/2019: Research Internship ''Populism, Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding (1945-2017),'' with Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• 01/2017-04/2017: Internship at the Papineau Electoral Office (electoral office of the Member of Parliament for Papineau, Justin Trudeau).
• 09/2015-06/2016: Erasmus, Specialization in Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, Sweden
• 09/2014-09/2017: Bachelor in ''International Studies'', Specialization in International Development, Université de Montreal

Media

Live Discussion on AI - AI on the Crossroads of Integrity and Innovation together with Paulina Alvarado-Goldman, live at the Airhead Institute, on the 21st of August 2025.

 

Team member. Heidelberg Research Group for Organization Studies – Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann. heiGOS.