Eight new PhD students enrolled at the department

Blanka Tóth, Kasper Smidt Krongaard, Mattis Thierion Lund, Nadja Pedersen, Özgur Akyildiz, Taus Mørch Hermansen, Xinyu Ji and Yushu Li begin their PhD studies at MGMT in September.

Blanka Tóth
Blanka Tóth
Kasper Smidt Krongaard
Kasper Smidt Krongaard
Mattis Thierion Lund
Mattis Thierion Lund
Nadja Pedersen
Nadja Pedersen
Özgur Akyildiz
Özgur Akyildiz
Taus Mørch Hermansen
Taus Mørch Hermansen
Xinyu Ji
Xinyu Ji
Yushu Li
Yushu Li


The following PhD students begin their studies at MGMT in September 2026:

Blanka Tóth with the project title 'Perceived Responsible Innovation and Firm Performance: A Consumer-Based Analysis'.
Blanka will be working with supervisors Darius Aurel-Frank and  Helle Alsted Søndergaard and affiliated with the SIM section.

Kasper Smidt Krongaard with the project title 'Navigating Boundaries: A Co-evolutionary Process study of coopetition in the food industry’s sustainable transition'.
Kasper will be working with supervisors Mai Skjøtt Linneberg and Jessica Aschemann-Witzel and affiliated with the ODA section.

Mattis Thierion Lund with the project title 'Coordinating the Commons: Interpersonal Synchrony in Organizational Resource Dilemmas'.
Mattis will be working with supervisors Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson and Kyosuke Tanaka and affiliated with the ODA section.

Nadja Pedersen with the project title 'Seeing through the filter: Adolescent and influencer responses to disclosure of digital alterations in influencer marketing'.
Nadja will be working with supervisors Susanne Pedersen and Anne Peschel and affiliated with the SIM section.

Özgur Akyildiz with the project title 'Economies of Worth in Science: Performativity and Epistemic Inequality in Institutional Support and Selection across Knowledge Ecologies'.
Özgur will be working with supervisors Jakob Arnoldi and Jens Peter Andersen (PS) and affiliated with the ODA section.

Taus Mørch Hermansen with the project title 'The Mandated Paradox: Constructing Digital Responsibility in Public Organizations'.
Taus will be working with supervisors Christiane Høvring and Heidi Salomonsen and and affiliated with the ODA section.

Xinyu Ji with the project title 'How Packaging Structures Perception: From Categorization to Consumer Confusion'.
Xinyu will be working with supervisors Jacob Lund Orquin and Jonas Valbjørn Andersen and affiliated with the SIM section.

Yushu Li with the project title 'When Does AI Make Firms Look Innovative? AI-Enabled Commercial Innovation and Consumer Perceptions of Firm Innovativeness in Denmark'.
Yushu will be working with supervisors Darius Aurel-Frank and Lina Jacobsen and affiliated with the SIM section.

A warm welcome to all our new PhD students!