Katrin Bauer

Research Associate
Research area Innovation and education in the digital society

Focus of work
Role of the Public Sector as part of the Social Innovation Ecosystem
Digitalization and Flexibilization within the Public Sector
Public Entrepreneurship

CV

Since July 2022: Senior Researcher I Social Research Center at TU Dortmund University, Germany
2019 - 2025: PhD in Business Administration I TU Dortmund University, Germany
2019 - 2022: Research Associate I Professorship of Technology Management / TIE Institute at TU Dortmund University, Germany
2018: Transatlantic Ruhr Fellow I Summer Program Rutgers University + Internship New York University, New York, NY, USA
2016 - 2017: Head of Accreditations for the World Championships (indoor handball) and Project Manager Beach Handball I German Handball Federation [alongside studies]
2015 - 2018: Parliamentary Secretary I Social Democratic Party of Germany [alongside studies]
2015: Research Assistant I Internationalization I International Office at TU Dortmund University, Germany
2014 - 2018: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering I TU Dortmund University, Germany
2014: Research Assistant I Marketing I Office of University Marketing at TU Dortmund University, Germany
2012: Research Assistant I Management I Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2011 - 2012: Study abroad I Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2009 - 2014: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering I TU Dortmund University, Germany
2003 - 2009: Strategy Project Manager I Salzgitter Corporation, Germany
1998 - 2004: Magistra Artium (M.A.) in East Asian Economics, Chinese, Business Administration I Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Publications

Projects

From 2025: EU Horizon/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks: Data2Action

Since 2023: BMBF: Platform for Social Innovations

Since 2022-2023: ESF: European Social Innovation Alliance (ESIA)

Contact

Social Research Center Dortmund (sfs)
Evinger Platz 17, room 55
Email: katrin.bauer@tu-dortmund.de
Tel.: +49 231 755 90252
Fax: +49 231 755 90205