Course Staff
Ute Eisenkolb
Programme Director MScBA major Innovation Management
Distance University of Applied Sciences Switzerland (FFHS)
Ute received her Master in Economics from the FU Berlin and holds various certificates such as in Digital Leadership or eDidactics. She has broad experience in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship, business development, investment management and higher education. She is responsible for a number of digital innovations.
Armon Pfister
Senior Lecturer and Coach
Distance University of Applied Sciences Switzerland (FFHS)
Armon holds a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Applied Psychology from University of Zurich. He has broad psychological-, research and teaching expertise in marketing, statistics, research methods and behavioural economics, and helps to realize various projects in digitization.
Daina Matise Schubiger
Researcher and Lecturer
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland (SUPSI)
Daina received her Master in Marketing with summa cum laude from the USI Lugano. Since 2013 she is teaching and researching at SUPSI DEASS. Her areas of expertise are marketing management, innovation, innovation adoption, project-based teaching in economics and management also with international and digital components.
Anastasija Tetereva
Lecturer and Coach
Distance University of Applied Sciences Switzerland (FFHS)
Anastasija holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from HSG, Switzerland, a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Latvia, and Master's Degree in Statistics from HU Berlin, Germany. Prior to joining FFHS, she had a postdoctoral appointment at the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research. Her search interests are mainly in the field of Financial Econometrics with a focus on machine learning methods and business applications for Data Science.
Monica Mendini
Researcher and Lecturer
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, SUPSI/DEASS
Monica holds a Ph.D. in Marketing (sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Doc.CH) from the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. Her research focuses mainly on consumer behavior, with particular reference to consumer-brand relationships, cause, marketing, design thinking, XR technologies, food consumption and consumer well-being. Her work has been published in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Qualitative Market Research and Marketing Education Review.
Martha Velasco
Department head in the study program “Sustainability and Circular Innovation”, Lecturer
FFHS
Martha holds a Ph.D. in Technological Innovation Projects by the Barcelona Tech University (UPC) in Spain. In 2005 she started her professional career in the field of business sustainability. She is co-owner of 2get-there where she focuses on providing advice on issues as sustainability strategy and entrepreneurship, the circular economy and sustainable business models. She works at the FFHS as lecturer and as Department head in the study program “Sustainability and Circular Innovation”.