Professor Ewald Aschauer, Department of Finance, Accounting & Statistics

Ewald Aschauer (aged 38) obtained his doctoral degree from WU in 2008. In 2014, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where he worked part-time until 2017. Also in 2014, he was offered a professorship at Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), where he held the chair for system stability and corporate monitoring at the Institute of Financial Accounting and Auditing until his recent appointment as a full professor at WU. At JKU, Professor Aschauer was also involved in the establishment of the JKU Business School, which he co-headed as part of the Dean Team. He also completed several visiting professorships in Austria and abroad. Ewald Aschbauer is also involved in several professional associations, where he works to promote the transfer of scientific knowledge. For example, he is a member of the business administration and organization panel and the business valuation working group of the Austrian Chamber of Tax Consultants and Accountants, member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Public Accountants’ Institute (IWP), member of the Austrian Financial Reporting and Auditing Committee (AFRAC), and speaker of the advisory board of COFAG, the Austrian federal COVID-19 financing agency. His research and teaching activities focus on balance sheet accounting, accounting and auditing and corporate governance, and business valuation. “Effective financial accounting is a cornerstone of economic exchange. With my research at WU, I would like to contribute to further developing and improving the quality of the financial reporting system,” says Ewald Aschauer. He started in his new position as professor of financial accounting and auditing at WU’s Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics on February 1, 2021.

Professor Susann Fiedler, Department of Strategy and Innovation

Susann Fiedler (aged 36) is a behavioral scientist. She earned her doctoral degree in psychology at the University of Erfurt in 2013. In 2014, she became head of the Economic Cognition research group at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. In the course of her academic career, she also worked as a visiting scholar at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (Harvard University) and as a visiting professor at the University of Hagen. Her work on the cognitive and affective processes involved in human choices, decisions, and activities has earned her the Otto Hahn Medal awarded by the Max Planck Society, among other distinctions. Susann Fiedler also works on questions related to the design of choice situations and organizational environments. Her research provides insights into the mental representation of situations and problems and how such representations (e.g. in case of biases) can be altered (e.g. to avoid misconduct in professional contexts). Susann Fiedler is also an advocate for open science and participates in several panels and groups dedicated to strengthening reproducibility in research (e.g. as part of the German Reproducibility Network and the German Psychological Society’s Ombuds Committee for psychological research). “I’m very much looking forward to my work in Vienna and to contributing to WU’s teaching in the field of behavioral and decision analysis,” says Susann Fiedler. She started in her new position as professor of business and psychology at WU’s Department of Strategy and Innovation on February 1, 2021.

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