Simon holds the Junior Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization at TU Dortmund. His research interests lie in the fields of (digital) entrepreneurship, leadership,  innovation, and strategic management. Simon co-authored the German and European Startup Monitor, which offers a comprehensive display of the German and European startup landscape.

His research has been published in renowned journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Discoveries, among others. His publications received multiple awards at conferences such as the European Academy of Management Meeting and the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship and Research Exchange Conference. Simon further published a book about digital business model generation. Find more about his research here.

Marko is an organizational sociologist who works as an associate professor and a head of the Centre for Workplace Research (CWER) at Prague University of Economics and Business. He specializes in exploring the changing nature of the workplace and the transformation of work and work-related processes. In addition to that, Marko is currently exploring experimental, qualitative research methodologies. He recently guest-edited a special issue on workplace transformation at Emerald’s Journal of Corporate Real Estate, edited a volume on flexible workplaces that Springer Nature has published, and has published several chapters and research papers in journals such as World Leisure Journal, Mobile Networks & Applications, Review of Managerial Science and others. Find his CV and published work here.

Lukáš Válek obtained a bachelor´s degree in Financial Management at the Faculty of Informatics and Management of the University of Hradec Kralove and a master´s degree in Corporate Finance and Business at the Faculty of Business and Management of the University of Technology Brno. He holds PhD in the field of Information and Knowledge Management from FIM, UHK. He is active in non-profit, non-governmental (NGO) sphere since 2010 and focuses on relations between NGOs and business. Since 2012 he is involved in projects of the program Erasmus+ in various roles including consultant for the Czech National Agency. His publishing activities are related mainly to non-mainstream complementary economic systems and further to migration and entrepreneurship. He has long experience in the application of methods of non-formal learning in education and in project management, and since 2017 worked as a technology scout in the field of humanities (University of Hradec Kralove). In the Cowork4EU project, he is in charge of the finances and project management at VSE. You can find out more about him and his publications right here.

Sandra is a Professor at Seeburg Castle University, a Research Affiliate at Harvard Medical School's Institute of Coaching, and an Affiliate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s Center for Leadership and People Management. She researches personnel and leadership development and social interactions in organisations. Sandra further leads the MBA in Coaching at SCU and has published several peer-reviewed papers and books, such as the Digital and AI Coaches Handbook. Find her publications, projects, and cooperations here.

Ignasi is a researcher specialising in innovation, creativity, and collaborative spaces. His work examines how physical, cognitive, and virtual contexts contribute to the emergence of communities, particularly within collaborative environments. He has explored topics such as the dynamics of new working spaces, the role of materiality in evaluating novel ideas, and the innovative capacity of cities. His research has been published in journals like the Academy of Management Discoveries, R&D Management, and Journal of Economic Geography. Find his full bibliography here.

Jonah studied business and economics at TU Dortmund University. He researched the effect of economic and demographic location factors on local entrepreneurship rates in Germany in the course of his bachelor thesis. In his master thesis, he deepened his studies by analyzing the effect of economic and cultural location factors on entrepreneurial startup and performance rates in the United States.

He spent a semester abroad at ESC Amiens in Amiens, France during his bachelor’s studies. Jonah gained his first practical experience while working at the British bank HSBC. He supports Cowork4EU as a research assistant at TU Dortmund while conducting academic research on coworking spaces in the course of his Ph.D. Find out more about him here.

Magdalena studied psychology at the University of Vienna, specialising in organisational and social psychology. She is involved in several projects related to workplace dynamics and contributes to the Cowork4EU project as a research associate at Seeburg Castle Private University. For her PhD, Magdalena focuses on academic research exploring remote work and coworking spaces within the broader context of work and organisational behavior.