New at HNU: Prof. Dr. Jens Kolb

It all started with the first computer in my parents' house, on which I began writing the first small software programs for my father at an early age. During my civilian service in the cardiac catheter laboratory at the University of Ulm, I got deeper into computer science. The step to study computer science at the University of Ulm was obvious. After graduation, I went to Michigan, USA, for an internship in "the middle of nowhere". A stay abroad is an experience I can recommend to everyone - even if (or exactly because) there were more deer there than inhabitants.
Afterwards, a job in a consulting firm was actually planned. At short notice, the content of this job changed in such a way that I preferred to take up the offer of a doctorate at the University of Ulm. I ended up doing my doctorate in the context of user-centered process management.
After my doctorate, I joined Lemonize GmbH in Ulm as managing director and worked there mainly in the areas of human resources, sales and project management. During this time, I was able to gain insight into a wide variety of national and international industrial companies. A great experience that I would not want to miss. I have been here at HNU since August 2022 and am researching the topic of "Sustainable Digitalization".

In the past, my research focus was in the area of user-centered process management - in other words, the mixture of computer science, business administration and psychology.

At HNU, my focus is on sustainable digitalization - in other words:

• How can technology help us achieve a positive impact?
• What impact does digitization have on sustainability?

What many people unfortunately forget is that every e-mail I send and every file on cloud storage also has a carbon footprint. This is smaller than a classic letter or paper file, but we also send significantly more "digital letters".

I have always enjoyed working in research and with students. That's why I always had various teaching assignments and supervised theses in parallel during my time in practice.

This semester, I am running events on Data Science, Sustainable Technologies, and Design Thinking. In the future, I would like to offer events with a focus on sustainability.

After I started at the beginning of the semester break, the first few weeks were quiet and I was able to prepare for the semester in peace.

Through my teaching position at HNU, I got a first look "inside" and felt quite comfortable. In addition, I found all internal processes to be very lightweight.

Sailing on Lake Constance or "tinkering" with home automation. In addition, like so many others, I'm also privately involved in the topic of photovoltaics.