Doctoral Candidate

Jannik Lockl completed his high school graduation in 2010 in Bad Windsheim, Bavaria. From 2010 to 2017, he studied Industrial Engineering & Management at the University of Bayreuth. He gained experience abroad at the engineering faculty of the Université Aix-Marseille and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In the course of his Bachelor’s degree, he completed several internships at international automotive suppliers, and worked part-time as an IT consultant for a logistics service provider. Mr. Lockl has been involved in the start-up scene since his first two foundations in 2012 and 2013. After winning several international business plan competitions and subsidies with his third foundation ‘inContAlert’ in 2017, he was able to start his own business with the Health-Tech Start-up in 2019, in parallel to his doctorate. At the Research Center Finance & Information Management (FIM) he started as a student assistant in March 2017 and has been a research assistant since February 2018.

Within the scope of his research activities, Jannik Lockl is primarily concerned with the methodological development and innovation, the possible uses and concrete application of emerging digital technologies.