Timm Teubner

Professor Dr. Timm Teubner is a full-time faculty member at Technische Universität Berlin, holding the Chair of Trust in Digital Services within the Faculty of Economics and Management. He is affiliated with the Institute of Technology and Management, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), and serves as a Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies. Since 2023, he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the ECDF and Associate Director at Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI). His interdisciplinary research bridges economics, sociology, and information systems.

His educational background includes a Diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management and a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) summa cum laude from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with prior study abroad at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He also served as Head of the Research Group 'Electronic Markets and User Behavior' and the Karlsruhe School of Services at KIT before joining TU Berlin in 2018.

Professor Teubner's research focuses on the analysis and design of digital platform ecosystems from a socio-technical perspective. Key interests include trust and reputation in online environments, platform-mediated human-computer interaction, digital transformation, and data-driven business models. His methodological approach emphasizes quantitative techniques such as laboratory and field experiments, surveys, network analysis, and secondary data mining.

Although specific article titles are not listed in the provided text, his scholarly output is published in top-tier journals and conferences including Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), ECIS, and ICIS, indicating strong engagement in design science, digital markets, and user behavior research.

• Doctoral degree with distinction (summa cum laude)
• Awards for teaching excellence at KIT
• Fellow of the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies
• Fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Professor Teubner actively supervises Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students, including Maik Hesse and Carl Max Tobias Menzel. He has chaired PhD defense committees since 2018. He also contributes significantly to academic service, including reviewing for the European Research Council (ERC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and has served as Associate Editor for major conferences such as ICIS, ECIS, and WI. He is a member of the Research Ethics Board at Faculty VII, TU Berlin.

He leads a research team within the Digital Service Engineering group, which includes research assistants Florence Jaouat, Teo Firpo, Aaron Kolleck, and Carl Max Tobias Menzel. His work benefits from the interdisciplinary environment of the Einstein Center Digital Future and Berlin’s vibrant digital startup ecosystem. Ongoing projects include the development of a 'Bubble-o-Mat' to study information bubbles online, inspired by the Wahl-o-Mat tool.