Prof. Dr Lucia Bellora-Bienengräberan joined the Faculty of Economics on 1 September 2025 and is leading the Research Group for Managerial Accounting & Sustainability since then.

New Professor of Managerial Accounting & Sustainability at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

On 1 September 2025, Prof. Dr Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber will take over the Chair of Managerial Accounting & Sustainability at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. With her appointment, the faculty is gaining an internationally renowned academic whose research is located at the interface of management accounting, sustainability and behavioural sciences.

She completed her doctorate at the Technical University of Dresden in 2013. After a junior professorship at the University of Hamburg, she moved to the University of Groningen in 2020, where she has been Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control since 2023. Research visits have also taken her to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Clemson University, where she has been a Visiting Adjunct Professor since 2023. Her research focuses on the design and impact of management control systems: How do they influence employee motivation, health and behaviour? What role do personality and values play in the company? And how can management control instruments be designed to promote not only economic efficiency, but also sustainability and responsibility?

Short interview with Prof Dr Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber (translated)

1. What particularly appeals to you about your new professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen?
"The UDE offers a lively, interdisciplinary environment in the centre of the Ruhr region, which provides me with many points of contact for innovative research and a close connection between science and practice. In the Ruhr region, economic, ecological and social transformation is not just a buzzword, but something that can be experienced and realised every day."

2. Your research combines management accounting with the topic of sustainability. Which topics would you particularly like to promote in research and teaching at UDE in the future - and why these in particular?
"I will focus more on topics such as sustainable corporate management, the use of AI in controlling and the role of values and personality in organisations in research and teaching. It is particularly important to me to teach students how management tools in companies can not only deliver figures, but also convey values and responsibility."

3. You have worked at various international universities. What experiences or impulses would you particularly like to bring to your new role in Duisburg-Essen?
"My time in the Netherlands, the USA and Germany has shown me how differently research cultures work. I would like to bring the openness and diversity that I experienced there to Duisburg-Essen."

The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics warmly welcomes Prof Dr Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber and looks forward to the new impulses she will bring to research, teaching and transfer.