Florian joined Heriot-Watt in 2021 as Assistant Professor of Business Management.

Florian graduated with a BA (2:1) in Business Administration with majors in Production and Distribution Management as well as European Busines from the University of Applied Sciences Ansbach in 2014, and completed his MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management the following year at Heriot-Watt University. He completed his PhD in 2022 funded by the Business Management scholarship of Heriot-Watt University. Prior to completing his PhD and to joining Heriot-Watt as Assistant Professor he successfully completed the Operations Management trainee programme of Royal Mail and worked as Operations Manager for three years in various locations across Scotland. 

Florian is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing & Operations deparment at Edinburgh Business School. He teaches Freight Transport and Warehouse Management as well as Operations Management on the MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme. He furthermore is programme director for the aforementioned programme and has previously held the role of programme director of the MSc Operations Management. Additionally, he currently is the Academic Quality lead for the Marketing & Operations deparment, represents his school at Senate, contributes to the School Studies and School Discipline comittee while also leading out on the School's strategic ambition for 2030 in his role as programme redesign lead.

Since joining Heriot-Watt in 2021, Florian help copious global and local course leadership roles and lead as well as coordinated the Undergraduate Business Management dissertation supervision processes. These encompassed the coordination of more than 60 colleagues and 250 students over the period of three years. He further contributed to the delivery of the Kuehne Foundation's and Heriot-Watt's joint programme for increasing the capacity of Logistics and Supply Chain Management knowledge within Nigeria.

Florian's research interests revolve around the influence of Social Capital on Performance in the context of Supply Chains as well as Higher Education settings. Additionally, he is particularly interested in experiential and work-integrated learning.