Contact:
Dr Maximilian Förster
Temporary Academic Councillor
Institute for Business Analytics
Ulm University
Helmholtzstraße 22
89081 Ulm
Office: Room E08
Phone: +49 (0)731 50-32317
Email: maximilian.foerster(at)uni-ulm.de
Office hours:
Appointment by arrangement
(enquiry by e-mail)
Maximilian Förster is a post-doctoral researcher at the Péter Horváth Endowed Professorship for Business Management/Administration with a focus on Business Information Management at the Institute for Business Analytics at Ulm University. His research interests lie in particular in the areas of Explainable Artifical Intelligence, Social Impact of Information Systems and Future Skills.
Maximilian Förster, born in 1993 in Wangen im Allgäu (Baden-Württemberg), completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (2012-2015) and a Master's degree in Physics and Management at Ulm University (2016-2018). He wrote his master's thesis at the School of Business and Social Sciences at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
From May 2018 to November 2021, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Péter Horváth Endowed Professorship for Business Management/Administration with a focus on Business Information Management at Ulm University. In November 2021, he completed his doctorate on the topic of "Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Social Interaction - Contributions with a Focus on Social Media and Explainable Artificial Intelligence." He has received several awards for his research, including the Südwestmetall Prize, the UUG Doctoral Prize and an award in the "Gemeinsam wird es KI!" ideas competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Maximilian Förster has been working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Business Analytics at Ulm University since December 2021. As such, he leads the research group in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
In his free time, Maximilian hikes through the Alps, plays the trumpet in a brass band and writes short stories.
Future Skills
Maximilian publishes his scientific contributions in the field of Management Information Systems in international journals such as European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Business Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and Journal of Business Economics (JBE) and presents the results of his work at international scientific conferences such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). He is also active as a reviewer and on the programme committee for relevant journals and conferences.
