Stefan Stieglitz is Professor of Business Information Systems and Digital Transformation and head of the SAP-endowed chair at the University of Potsdam. Furthermore, he is director of the Competence Center Connected Organization which aims at intensifying the knowledge transfer between research and the business world. Previously he hold a position as a professor at University of Duisburg-Essen and as an assistant professor at University of Münster. His work focuses on the impact of social media on companies and society. He investigates and develops applications and methods of social media analytics in order to realize empirical research in domains such as marketing, internal corporate communication, and crisis communication.

Starting January 2023, Stefan Stieglitz serves as a member of the Academic Society’s Executive Board and its Scientific Advisory Board.