Directors

Mr. Häckel studied Business Administration at the University of Augsburg with a major in Business & Information Systems Engineering, Financial Engineering, Public Sector Management and Production and Logistics. From 2004 – 2010, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Research Center Finance & Information Management where he finished his doctoral thesis “Beiträge zum integrierten Ertrags- und Risikomanagement im Rahmen einer wertorientierten Unternehmensführung” with “summa cum laude”, in June 2010. Since the end of 2010, Mr. Häckel works as a postdoctoral candidate at the Research Center FIM. Simultaneously, he took up a deputy professorship for Business Engineering with the major in Finance, Operations and Information Management at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (University of Augsburg). Furthermore, Mr. Häckel is head of the research group “IT-based Financial Management” as well as assistant head of research at the Research Center FIM.

Thereby, his research topics include especially the application of financial methods on the evaluation and management of IT investments as well as IT portfolios. Moreover, Mr. Häckel is engaged in IT-enabled identification, quantification and control of systemic risk in value-adding networks.