Teaching
From building your own digital service to finding your voice as a researcher.
Building Digital Services with AI
Practical seminar · KIT · Winter 2026/27
Take an idea you care about and turn it into a web app with AI coding tools. You keep the app and its repository, so the project can continue beyond the course.
- Find your starting point
- Choose a problem worth solving. Use early evidence to understand who needs help and give your AI coding tools a clear brief.
- Shape the experience
- Sketch how people will use your app and bring the main screens to life. Try each other’s prototypes to find what feels intuitive and what needs another pass.
- Build a working app
- Work with AI coding agents to connect your interface to a database, add login and access controls, and put the app online. Learn to read and debug the code behind your idea.
- Make it ready to share
- Test the paths that matter and refine your app before the live demo. Your build log captures the decisions and discoveries you can draw on in your next project.
Digital Services: Innovation & Business Models
Master’s course · KIT
What makes a digital service worth adopting? In this co-taught course, I explore that question through innovation adoption, platforms, and smart services. Prepare the concepts before class, then put them to work in cases we discuss together.
- Innovation adoption
- Follow an idea from its first users to wider adoption. Work out why people embrace a new service, what holds them back, and how to make the change worthwhile.
- Platforms and ecosystems
- Step into the Apple–Epic dispute to explore who creates value and who sets the rules. Use network effects and platform governance to make sense of the competing interests.
- Smart services
- Imagine what a connected product could do for its users beyond the initial sale. Explore how sensors and data support new services, and what it takes to bring those services into use.
Philosophy of Science
Doctoral seminar · KIT · Winter 2026/27
What do we really learn when we do research? I co-lead this seminar as a space to explore that question together. Bring your own project into conversation with foundational readings and other researchers’ perspectives.
- See your question differently
- Try looking at your research question through another philosophical lens. Discover how a different starting point changes the evidence you seek and the answers you might find.
- Find the contribution
- Put into words what your research could help us understand. Discuss the role of technology in your work and who might find your insights useful beyond academia.
- Shape your research practice
- Articulate the kind of researcher you want to be. Explore where AI could help your work and which decisions you want to think through yourself.
Digital Services at HECTOR School
Executive education · KIT
Where could digital services take your organization next? My HECTOR School sessions give professionals concepts and cases to explore new offerings and the choices involved in making them work.
- Innovation adoption
- Explore how a promising service wins support inside a company and earns a place in customers’ lives. Cases help you think through the people and changes that make adoption possible.
- Platforms and ecosystems
- Map where a company could contribute to a platform ecosystem and how it depends on others. Discuss the choices around openness, partnerships, and who captures the value.
- Smart services
- Explore service opportunities around connected products, from remote support to predictive maintenance. Connect what the technology makes possible with a useful offering and a workable business model.
- Sustainable digital services
- Consider how services could keep products useful for longer. Explore how shared data and digital product passports can help companies work together on circular business models.
Research through a thesis
A thesis gives you room to pursue a question of your own. I advise doctoral researchers and bachelor’s and master’s students on how to turn that curiosity into a study.
Thesis opportunities at KIT