Hi, I am Maximilian, an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Prior to this role I spent a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at HEC Paris. I hold a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from the University of Mannheim.
Hi, I am Maximilian, an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Prior to this role I spent a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at HEC Paris. I hold a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from the University of Mannheim.
Research Statement
My multi-method research projects cover social influence in user-generated content networks–combining both secondary and experimental data. My research interests meet at the interface of empirical quantitative marketing and information systems. Specifically, I research sales-driven influencer marketing and its impact on society.
Research Topics
Creator Economy
Influencer Marketing
Empirical Modeling
Large-scale Field-Experiments
As for service to academia, I am regularly invited to review scholarly work. I co-chair the Creator Economy Retreat and the EMAC Creator Economy Special Interest Group. I am also a co-chair of the "Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Online Platforms" track at the 2026 AMA Winter Academic Conference.
Alongside my co-authors, I received the 2025 Don Lehmann Award from the AMA, the 2024 AMA/MSI H. Paul Root Award and was named a finalist for the 2024 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award. I also was honored with the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from the German Association for Direct Selling, the 2024 Stiftung Marketing Award (University of Mannheim), and the Runner-Up Prize in the 2024 EMAC/Enginius Doctoral Dissertation Competition, as well as the 2023 CDSB Doctoral Student Awards from the GESS at the University of Mannheim for Best Teacher and Best Paper and the Best Student Paper Award at WISE 2022.