Assoc. Prof Christian FISCH

Christian Fisch is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg. He founded and heads SnT’s Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Technology (EINT) research group. Christian serves on the National Centre of Excellence in Research and Innovation in Financial Technologies (NCER FutureFinTech) leadership team and contributes to SnT’s space strategic research area.

Christian’s research examines entrepreneurial finance and innovation strategy, with a strong focus on new technologies (e.g. AI and blockchain), sustainability- and climate-related entrepreneurship, and space entrepreneurship. Christian serves as an Editor at Small Business Economics and as an Associate Editor at Venture Capital, and he supervises PhD candidates at the University of Luxembourg in the area of management and entrepreneurship.

Christian teaches across Master’s and PhD programmes at the University of Luxembourg. He developed the business curriculum for the Master’s in Space Technologies and Business (e.g. Space Business, Entrepreneurship) and adapted components for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Cybersecurity (CYBERUS) and doctoral training.

Christian leads applied knowledge transfer projects connecting entrepreneurship research with industry and policy, including an entrepreneurship mentor project (Wixdom partnership) and TAU20 (AI-powered impact assessment), as well as pan-European surveys of VC and PE markets for the European Investment Fund. He collaborates with SnT’s Technology Transfer Office on acceleration activities and has served as a Fit 4 Start mentor and jury member.

Christian’s research has received multiple international awards, including the VHB Research Newcomer Award (2020), the EURAM Most Innovative Entrepreneurship Paper Award (2023), the EQUA Foundation Best Paper on Entrepreneurial Purpose Award (BCERC 2024), and the DRUID Best Paper Award (2018). He has also received multiple Best Teaching Awards at the Trier University.

Christian joined the University of Luxembourg in February 2022 as an Associate Professor. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher (“Akademischer Rat”) at the Trier University (2017–2022) and co-directed the SME Research Institute at the Trier University (2016–2020). He has been an affiliated researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2013–2022) and held visiting appointments at the University of Bergamo (2019) and the Kwansei Gakuin University (2018–2019).

Christian earned his habilitation (postdoctoral degree) at the Trier University (2017–2020) and his PhD from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (ERIM) in 2016. He completed an MSc in Business Administration at the Trier University (2010–2012) and a BSc in Business Administration at the Trier University (2007–2010).